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Shut down computer once dropbox has finished syncing
It would be useful if the computer could shutdown after syncing so that everything has been loaded up.
Features that interact in potentially dangerous ways with low-level operating system commands are nothing to be taken lightly or implemented unless very necessary. Dropbox is intended to work seamlessly and also with little danger to your computing environment. Assuming that an automated command (user-called or otherwise) to shut down can be thrown safely at some hours-later or days-later time, especially with machines that regularly get auto-updated by many different software vendors, is very dicey. I'm sure it *could* work a lot of the time, but DB has to be extremely careful for all the outlier cases and also assume that many users will make serious mistakes. In this context, a serious mistake could be a catastrophe.
This forum is full of people in other posts who manage to get snarled just using regular features as they are. One who can leave a modern computer running for days while a big sync happens can leave it running a day longer in order to shut it down safely when they have observed success. The benefits of Dropbox are already tremendous, and sketchy features aren't worth the hit they might take if people had trouble.
