Cloud Computing: NIGHTMARE – Man Claims Dropbox Quietly Deleted More Than 8,000 Of His Personal Files

July 30, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Lisa Eadiciccio

Jan Curn, co-founder and CTO at photogprahy software platform VirtualRig Studio, has been using Dropbox since 2009. After using the service for about five years, Curn has come across one of the most terrifying, stomach-churning scenarios one could imagine when relying on cloud storage.

More than 8,000 of his personal files had mysteriously disappeared. To be exact, 8,343 of his files were missing. Curn detailed his experience on Medium, complete with his entire correspondence with Dropbox discussing the problem. In his post, Curn writes that he had decided to use Dropbox’s Selective Sync feature when the hard drive in his laptop was running low on space…

Selective Sync allows you to manually choose which folders from Dropbox you’d like to sync with your computer…

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