Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by jumbopapa on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:40AM (#20845741)

I think it's unlikely that Dropbox files would just disappear from the disk. They might not update, but that's the only realistic option.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by prepend on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:01AM (#20845803)

I had this expectation too. Recently I started trying to use OneDrive. I had really basic expectations. But I’ve run into situations where multiple locations syncing the same files led to weird stuff.

Scenario- win7, win10, mac, phone had a folder called “admin” with multiple sub folders. Turning off syncing on a sub folder on one of these ended up deleting the folder and all it’s contents on all the machines. Renaming or moving folders has also resulted in unexpected deletes.

OneDrive is not Dropbox, but it reminded me not to do this with important files regardless that Dropbox has been pretty solid for 10+ years.

I’m back to rsync from “source” and not using OneDrive for workflow.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by dasil003 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:55AM (#20845787)

It's not realistic that a distributed and potentially shared file syncing product could erroneously delete a file?

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by rvnx on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:08AM (#20845827)

It's a company that allowed anyone in production to login and download/delete files of any account without any password. I'm sure they have improved procedures since right ?

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