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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by coldtea on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#20507673)
>From the filesystem point of view, I don't think that Dropbox is so much concerned about you losing your data because of corruption. As, anyway they are supposed to be safe and versioned in the cloud.

They could get to the Cloud corrupted, and then continue replicating in your devices, so no...

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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by moolcool on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:15PM (#20507865)
That's where the "and versioned" comes in handy
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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by coldtea on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:12PM (#20508354)
Versioned wont help if it's the first copy that got into dropbox.
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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by greatgib on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:30PM (#20538110)
If it's the first copy, it will just be read by Dropbox. There will not be 'write' from Dropbox that can corrupt it...
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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by greatgib on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:01PM (#20509256)
If it's the first copy going to Dropbox, then it is not Dropbox that wrote it and so not Dropbox that corrupted it by writing in a wrong way...
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