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Old 05-16-2015, 12:23 AM   #437
Gregg Bell
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb View Post
FWIW: I treat Dropbox as a snapshot *copy* place. I never put my only copy of a thing into the Dropbox folder. I always copy it into the dropbox folder. I know that the Dropbox folder is a folder on my own computer (which is then copied up into the cloud somewhere). This means I have two copies of the thing on my own computer, plus the Dropbox version can be accessed (by me) from somewhere else (like my phone). That's handy. But I don't put my main version of a file there. I put a *snapshot* in there.

That's just how I'm comfortable using it.

(To jump into your discussion here.)
Deb
Thanks Deb. That makes total sense (the snapshot copy idea) except that it gets a little impractical (I think) doing it when I've got two computers synced (unless I'm missing something). As it is I've got the same stuff on both computers (everything is in the Copy (synced) folder and basically nothing is on either of the computers themselves.)

Your way, if I were to originate a file and then make a "copy" and add it to the Copy (synced) folder on just that one computer that would mean that I don't have the selfsame file on the other computer (except for in the Copy file). So I could add the selfsame file to the other computer but I don't think it's realistic that I would be able to keep it all straight. (What if I add five files?)
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