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What I don't understand about Dropbox in 2019 is that they are trying to limit features known to work without any issues. What's worse is that they do this with no particular reasons or explanations.

Why they are doing this recently?



If they can't explain how the change is an improvement or fix for some problem, then it probably isn't being done for the benefit of the customer.


Dropbox never before supported symlinks as symlinks. (It would sync the target folder even if the target was in Dropbox, duplicating data).

Now symlinks are understood by the server, but ones targeting content outside Dropbox break.


Could they be adding feature of synchronizing multiple folder paths?

Or could they be changing the use case of the platform to sharing files instead of backing them up.




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