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shuzchen on Oct 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files

"Permanently Lose Your Files" -> "I am able to restore each file from Dropbox's version history"

It's also important to remember the meaning of the word "permanently", while this is a UX disaster, the title is misleading.

throwit1979 on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

...except the author permanently lost files that were 0-byted before some sort of internal Dropbox process wiped the version history.

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