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Erik, I guess it's pretty safe for most attentive users, assuming no other automatic processes end up negatively affected. There is nothing hugely wrong with having a shutdown feature, but it just doesn't seem all that necessary to me.
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Features that interact in potentially dangerous ways with low-level operating system commands are nothing to be taken lightly or implemented unless very necessary. Dropbox is intended to work seamlessly and also with little danger to your computing environment. Assuming that an automated command (user-called or otherwise)…
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Actually, a little balloon that reminds you that you are still syncing when you try to shut down might be nice, but that's the limit of it. Remember, the Dropbox concept is not to bother you, but to work WITH you and all your activities on your machines, accepting your activities without complaint. They try to design the…
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Huh? Really? That's useful? I disagree. That sounds tremendously annoying and like just another strange setting of little value to the overwhelming majority of users. The concept of Dropbox is to be lightweight, extremely quiet, and non-invasive to your computers and your life. It is designed to keep your data synchronized…
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I'm guessing that your situation is you have photos stored in a folder and you want to share this folder through Dropbox so others get the photos too? As far as I know, the way photos are arranged in a folder on a computer is entirely dependent on settings in the machine's operating system, and is not at all dependent on…
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Debbie, Do you mean arrange them within a folder? What operating system are you using (Windows, Mac, etc?) Your question is hard to answer because it isn't very clear what you mean by a "file." I'm not sure this is something specific to Dropbox, but might be more dependent on your operating system and software you are…
