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Dropbox changes file permission

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Mar 15, 20261295 views
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I'm using Dropbox to synchronize files between my MacBook and my iMac. My problem is, that Dropbox changes the file permission during synchronization from 0755 to 0644 and vice versa. And I'm wondering why. I'm using Dropbox also to synchronize some git repositories and this gets anoying, because g…

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Dropbox is a "user-friendly" service that will do things automatically for you, which may not always be what you want. There is nothing to do about it until they implement permission retention (translation) between the different operating systems wh…

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