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teddyferent62
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Multiple Hard Drive Synchronisations

Hello,   I'm going to have to different Mac on two different places and need to synchronise all my datas so when I switch from one computer to another, I can access all my data. The fact is that ...
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Harry13
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Ok then I understand the risk. But this makes me sceptical about dropbox overall. What happens if a main hdd fails for some reason and my files are deleted everywhere.

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Rich
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3 years ago
Harry13 wrote:

What happens if a main hdd fails for some reason and my files are deleted everywhere.

If your main hard drive fails then Dropbox wouldn't be running, so it couldn't sync your files.

 

If you have Dropbox installed on one drive and your Dropbox folder stored on another (internal) drive, then the same risk applies though it's extremely rare. Typically, if the entire Dropbox folder is missing at startup, then the application SHOULD say that it can't find it and just stop. The main risk is if it goes missing while Dropbox is already running, and this risk exists regardless of the sync service that you use.

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