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Watts H.

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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TRYING TO GET HELP FROM DROPBOX. I provided coherent descriptions to 3 or 4 different "I want to help you..." tech support people, each of whom I either never heard from ...
7 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Thanks for that. Like the sound of your approach: belt + suspenders + duct tape. I'm with you on the RAID5 or equivalent approach -- has occured to me as the only way to hedge against HD...
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Thanks. I'll check out sync.com At this point, think I'm going to move away from a sync'ing approach entirely (at least for most secure form of backup) -- my concern is, per experience w...
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Further to your comment to@Mark -- my "buggy system" magically moved the files/folders while all my devices were powered down and offline at the same moment at 3:43 am one morning (and I was asleep....
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
currentcapital, Did@Mark post something?
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Can't help with follow that up with a: "are you joking?" If you are so determined to help -- do the research and send me answers to my original requests, which you should be able to find in co...
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
No, had enough "help" from you and your colleagues, thanks. Totally incompetent.
8 years ago Place Delete, edit, and organize
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Yes, Dropbox help totally useless, to the point of being comically bad: multiple emails from different "customer service" staff insisting they would help, with NONE of them responding to the very cl...
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
Just got a nice message from some minion at dropbox, telling me "not to worry"... Ummm...I pay them money to keep my data backed up and secure and their system is clearly not doing its job -- eit...
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Re: Randomly deleted files and folders
I'm getting weird things going on as well: folders/files appearing in my dropbox root directory without me doing anything -- because I have thousands of subdirectories and 10's of thousands of files...
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