[ale] Dropbox opinions wanted

[James Sumners]

I'm not sure about that. I know that the latest version syncs directly
across the LAN if possible. But copying from the greater database?
Hmmm.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I have found something else that I sure is exactly what I think it is.
>
> As I said, I store PDFs on DB.  Many of them are manuals.  Sometimes
> when I download a manual to ~/Downloads then copy it to
> ~/Dropbox/<directory>  I see the icon sync but only for a second.
>
> Some manuals can be rather large so my thought is that they take a MD5
> sum of the manual and look in their database for something that matches.
> If it does then they simply copy the match to my account instead of
> uploading what I placed in my Dropbox directory.


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