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matthewmalk248
Apr 17, 2014Aspirant
RN102 Just deleted a ton of folders on my dropbox!
Our RN102 stopped syncing to dropbox about a week ago, so we tried rebooting it and a firmware update to 6.1.7, it still wouldn't sync, then we tried unlinking the NAS from the dropbox account and re...
tobymills
Aug 05, 2014Aspirant
Hi Matthew,
I am experiencing exactly the same problem.
I enabled dropbox backup on my ReadyNAS 102 recently, but it was hogging all my bandwidth doing the initial sync, so I disabled it temporarily. When I re-enabled it, any file that had been added to dropbox while it was disabled was seen as a delete rather than an add, and so ReadyNAS happily went and deleted them all!
Does anybody know if this is a bug in DropBox or in the ReadyNas implementation?
Did you manage to resolve the problem at all?
Toby :)
I am experiencing exactly the same problem.
I enabled dropbox backup on my ReadyNAS 102 recently, but it was hogging all my bandwidth doing the initial sync, so I disabled it temporarily. When I re-enabled it, any file that had been added to dropbox while it was disabled was seen as a delete rather than an add, and so ReadyNAS happily went and deleted them all!
Does anybody know if this is a bug in DropBox or in the ReadyNas implementation?
Did you manage to resolve the problem at all?
Toby :)
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