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Originally Posted by eschwartz
If the files got deleted, you have 30 days to undelete them on the website.
Starting the Dropbox/Copy.com client will make the deletions get synced, so the local copies would be removed as well. But only once you sync.
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Holy crap! (Thanks eschwartz) That makes syncing dangerous as hell then. Right? I have almost all of the files of my two computers synced to my Copy folder. It's been convenient as can be, but I figured no matter what happened in the cloud, the files would always be on my computers in the Copy folder.
So what's my real element of risk here? (You said if the files are deleted I have 30 days to undelete them. Do you happen to know if that's for Copy's free version?) So if it is the case that for the free version I have 30 days to undelete them, am I safe? (Obviously I'll be using my computer more regularly than every 30 days.) (And another question comes to mind: how high is the risk of my Copy folder being deleted?) Because I got Copy for the
added security it seemed to present. I didn't realize (besides the notion of getting files confused) there was the possibility of such a
huge risk as deletion.
I know the Internet itself is often a convenience vs risk tradeoff, but this risk seems pretty huge.
Yes, I have a lot of the stuff in my Copy folder backed up on flash drives but the idea of that stuff not being on my computer is creepy!
What's a reasonable take on this?
Thanks!