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Dropbox eats my files! Random deletes from Mac client

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20267775 views
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Problem

For months, I've been fighting one Mac machine that syncs with my dropbox account. I have sync to several Windows, Linux and OSX clients, and only one of them exhibits this problem. Basically, it randomly deletes files. Seriously. Some days I will turn on another machine and be notified that x, x a…

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Fix for: Dropbox eats my files! Random deletes from Mac client

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This problem seems to be linked to "the Turkish issue" (involving both dotted and non-dotted versions of i). There is some kind of duplicate checking mechanism in Dropbox to side step problems with case insensitive file systems. In site of their cla…

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