[OSX-Users] The Personal Data Issue

[Chris Andrews]

Good to know! I might well use that trick...

Cheers,

Chris

On Thursday, October 6, 2016, Hugh Davis <hcd at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> The same had occurred to me, and this is exactly why I used aliases rather
> than making links.  I do have links all over the place in my folders and
> Dropbox definitely treats them differently to aliases.
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> Dropbox does not follow the Aliases and if you check this from the Dropbox
> web interface you get a deadend at the Alias.
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> Hugh Davis
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> On 6 Oct 2016, at 09:43, Chris Andrews <w at lfie.org <javascript:;><mailto:
> w at lfie.org <javascript:;>>> wrote:
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> Have you checked how the folders appear in the Dropbox web interface? I
> seem to remember that Dropbox at one point followed certain pointers -
> think it was hard links rather than aliases, but might be worth a look
> regardless.
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> Cheers,
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> Chris
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> On Thursday, October 6, 2016, Hugh Davis <hcd at soton.ac.uk <javascript:;>
> <mailto:hcd at soton.ac.uk <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> Of course, I have *never* committed the crime of keeping other peoples’
> personal data in Dropbox, but the recent conversation on this list led me
> to thinking about how I could continue to use Dropbox as my main backup and
> sync mechanism for my entire Documents repository EXCEPT personal data,
> while at the same time keeping any legitimately retained personal data
> backed up and synched “within" the University (OneDrive).
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> So, I don’t know when people last looked at MS OneDrive?  Until recently
> the “OneDrive for Business” version constantly crashed on OS/X and when it
> occasionally didn't crash it didn’t seem to sync reliably. The latest
> version of OneDrive, available from the MAC AppStore (and the IOS AppStore)
> seems to work perfectly (I’m on Sierra). When you install it asks if you
> want to use your “School” account, and then redirects you to an iSolutions
> login. It asks you where you want the OneDrive folder installed, and I
> choose a place that is not backed up by Dropbox. It is all then set up just
> like Dropbox, with a folder that you can put in your Finder.  I can confirm
> that on my systems it works and syncs between systems (MacOS and IOS) just
> fine.
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> So now what I have done is moved all my sensitive folders into the
> Onedrive directory, and in my Dropbox directory, where I would like these
> folders to appear I have put Aliases, so the whole directory navigation is
> seamless, and your personal data is “safe” in that it is backed up within
> the approved university systems (Microsoft!).
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> Hope this might be helpful.
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> /h.
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> Hugh Davis
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