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> indexing >300k files is tough (very easy to get to that count if you're keeping open source codebases on DB … Also throughout this dropbox repeatedly overwrites work files while I'm working on them (thankfully with backups.)

To their credit, it sounds like you should have been using source control all along.

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> To their credit, it sounds like you should have been using source control all along.

I reply to this only so people don't think I am negligent enough to not use source control!

Yes I use source control, but there are these periods where things aren't committed, during which you can lose work if some process overwrites files. The same goes for disk failure, unwise use of the rm command, etc.

To their credit that a file you are currently editing is overwritten with an old version by their software, but hey at least that software made a copy? Are you joking?

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