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Re:Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files by erichocean on Friday October 26, 2012 @09:23PM (#4704988)
HOWEVER, any service capable of syncing files is equally capable of destroying them.

That's simply not true (I've built sync systems that are incapable of destroying files).

IMO, syncing designs that do have unrevokable overwrites are inherently brittle. (I don't know if Dropbox is built that way, but AFIAK, iCloud (and MobileMe before it) is -- and it sucks.)

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Re:Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:46AM (#4705490)
Dropbox is revocable, the issue is for how long. In addition to online versions, the client holds on to old versions for three days. It used to be longer but the cache could get unreasonably large.
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