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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by chongli on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:39PM (#20849765)
And how do you imagine that it would happen that Dropbox would randomly trash the contents of your files?

Lots of ways. Suppose they tried to implement a 3-way merge system (a la git) to resolve conflicts in your synced files. It's easy to see that going terribly wrong if they implement it incorrectly.

It's proprietary software as a service. That means they could conceivably make a breaking change like that without even notifying you, the user, and cause data loss.

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