Dropbox...aarrgghhhhh!

[posiview]

Started using Dropbox about 3 weeks ago. Dropped my photographs in the online section and they took around 10 days to upload. Finished and went online...nowt there!

Did it for a second time and some thing.

I have a Dropbox folder on my Mac. Now, forgive my ignorance, I thought the files I uploaded to Dropbox went into the cloud, but when I delete any file from the Dorpbox on My Mac it disappears from my online Dropbox folder.

Can anyone clarify??

Cheers.

 

[Furtim]

I would expect the 'dropbox' folder on your Mac to be synchronised with the cloud. Copy stuff in there, it gets copied to the cloud; delete stuff from there, it gets deleted from the cloud. That would be the normal default behaviour.

 

[posiview]

I would expect the 'dropbox' folder on your Mac to be synchronised with the cloud. Copy stuff in there, it gets copied to the cloud; delete stuff from there, it gets deleted from the cloud. That would be the normal default behaviour.

Thought as much. Don't recall deleting stuff from there though

 

[Oxford_Matt]

Try giving this a shot….If you log into your dropbox account online. (PC or Mac) you can sometimes access a dropbox trash folder that contains recently deleted stuff.
thats if it successfully uploaded in the first place. Good Luck

 

[drounding]

Sounds like you are syncronising a folder with DB but what you want to do is to backup to DB.
When synchronising the online DB folder mirrors your local folder and if you delete from one the other gets deleted too.
When you backup to DB then your files will stay in DB regardless of any deletions locally.

 

[Chappers]

In DB on the web, ( not local folder) click on the dustbin at the top. Select "Show deleted files" this will show the files you have deleted. Right click and choose restore.

DropBox is a file sharing operation, not a storage only system. In other words you need to have the files on the Host computer for them to exist on DropBox

 

[Mr Bump]

yes I use dropbox a lot and unless you set the different options it will just mirror the folder you are using locally, if you delete files they delete in the cloud. Its more geared for document sharing and collaboration.

 

[posiview]

Cheers, more research was needed, I guess, as I wanted it for off-site storage.

Time to drop Drobox.

Cheers.