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Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
You may not see a reason why Dropbox would change anything, but then that was also the case thousands of their users. Whether in the digital world or in the physical world, if you don't have physical possession of some valuable item, you don't really own it. If the bank, brokerage or government wants to take all your savings, stocks, etc, they can remotely do so with the stroke of a keyboard or pen. The same is true of your digital goods.
Keep good local backups of everything you value. Storage devices these days are cheap, especially in comparison to some of the valuable, often irreplaceable information that gets stored on them. I do this and also make sure I have the hardware and software which allows the retrieving of the data. Don't trust your data to the cloud.
hi there, actually I will disagree with you - lately I had moved ALL my data on the cloud, except movies and stuff, which I can afford to lose. And I use all my files directly from the cloud folder - way more secure. If you have encrypted folder included in the cloud service, you are protected and you can store all your work, personal documents and so on. Back up, a physical one, is not needed.
As we speak about Public folders, back to the topic, I was just investigating where is best to store my index and files... obviously now I have to lookup for another solution.
