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Situation: I am backing up the folders in my ~/ with Dropbox backup. Among them is the "Downloads" folder. The "Downloads" folder is my default download location for web browsers. I like that the files I have downloaded are backed up to Dropbox.
Problem: While the browser is downloading a file, Dropbox is uploading that same file to its servers. Dropbox does not wait for the download task to complete. The consequence is that the download speed is negatively impacted by the upload bandwith used by Dropbox.
Possible solution: Have a script move downloaded files from folder A to folder B and sync only folder B.
Question(s): Isn't this a design flaw? Am I the only one having this problem? Don't you think the behavior of the Dropbox app doesn't make much sense in this particular case?
