You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
The following issue cannot get solved by using any setting inside Dropbox or by external precautions – such as alerts on OS-level. Staff should find a support ticket on the problem I describe.
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Hi Walter,
I wish you at Dropbox staff established different ways to deal with technical level feedback. What I brought forward would save every user in a comparable situation from temporary loss of all data – and all the work and damage associated with it.
Avoiding this potential data loss would make Dropbox better for everyone. Yet, it's naive to expect to collect numerous votes in an end-user forum. Someone could suggest a killer-tweak that would double your app-performance on all platforms – but that post would gather dust here.