
College Professor: I Lost Tons Of Critical Files Because Of Dropbox
JULIE BORT - Business Insider
Here's a scary story that shows how dangerous it can be to sync Dropbox across all of your devices, even when you are being very careful.
Until this week, Northeastern University Professor Dr. Heidi Kevoe-Feldman loved Dropbox.
"I've been using Dropbox for years for everything. I have students upload papers to it, I collaborate with other researchers on it," she told Business Insider.
She was also using it as backup storage for hundreds of files and years worth of her own research. Kevoe-Feldman had more than 100 gigabytes of files stored on Dropbox, and she had long ago upgraded from a free account to a paid one.
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