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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
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.
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Consider what "Sync"
means. It means that you want the
same contents in the folders being synced. This means that if you
add stuff locally, it gets added to the online folders when you Sync, but if you
delete stuff locally, it gets deleted in the online folders when you Sync, too.
It seems like what you want in the online folders is essentially a
backup of what you have locally. If you have an "Oops!" moment and delete something you shouldn't have, or make a change to a local copy you decide you need to revert and can only do that by going back to an earlier version, you have an earlier version available.
If having a
backup you can restore from is a goal, Sync is arguably not the way you do it.
Computers don't yet have a "Do what I
mean" function. They do what you
say, and it's on you to make sure what you say
is what you mean.
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Dennis