Comment Comment by j4_hnews Also to note, Dropbox was likely inspired by the open source Unison file-synchronization tool. So they have to handle all of the shortcomings and caveats that Unison does not handle out of the box:Caveats: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...Symbolic links: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...Permissions: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...Cross platform issues (unsupported characters across operating systems and file systems): https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...Edit: Inspired by the the Unison Spec (published on 2004) which may be why we have conflict files etc. when using Dropbox http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/unisonspec.pdf parent j4_hnews 7 years ago
Caveats: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...
Symbolic links: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...
Permissions: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...
Cross platform issues (unsupported characters across operating systems and file systems): https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...
Edit: Inspired by the the Unison Spec (published on 2004) which may be why we have conflict files etc. when using Dropbox http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/unisonspec.pdf