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Answer by Simd for Safe way of synchronising Dropbox with backup

It seems that dropbox does download a file into cache and then after it is completely downloaded it then copies and deletes the old version locally. Attributes such as modified time, created time etc...

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Answer by user1301428 for Safe way of synchronising Dropbox with backup

You shouldn't do any damage, since Dropbox is first of all a folder on your local hard drive. This folder can then sync with the online Dropbox server, but if you back it up on an external drive before...

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Safe way of synchronising Dropbox with backup

I use Dropbox but also like to back up my files to an external hard drive. I am currently doing a one way sync from Dropbox to the external drive every hour. This is very inefficient as the application...

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