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At least one of my files was effected and not recoverable (hopefully the zero-size test is reliable).

0 byte files are not necessarily a sign of a bug. There are many cases where you, or the tools you use, may intentionally create 0 byte files which would appear in DropBox. There is a problem only if you see empty files which you expected to contain data.

Obviously...

I mean, I know there are idiots on the Internet, but at some point your assumption that someone is an idiot is idiotic. I know where this file came from and I haven't touched it. Dropbox hammered it.

Take it easy, I wasn't trying insult you or suggest that I believe you don't know what you are doing.

I read "hopefully the zero-size test is reliable" as "is a reliable way to detect if there is a problem with my files" and that is what I was trying to comment on. Apparently I misunderstood.

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