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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 2 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.434s | source
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ptomato ◴[09 Sep 16 16:28 UTC] No.12463733[source]▶
It looks like in 10.12 Apple has added TCC.db to SIP, so this will no longer work — Dropbox will, hopefully, actually be forced to request accessibility access like they're supposed to. I'm sure they'll still demand your admin password via a dialog that tries super hard to look like a system one to use for whatever other more or less nefarious purposes. Would be nice if there was an alternative that actually syncs as reliably and performantly, but in my testing that's very much not the case.

I appreciate the trend of Apple forcing Dropbox to stop doing dumb shit, though. (Previously, of course, the SIMBL-style Finder hacking)

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perfectfire ◴[09 Sep 16 19:41 UTC] No.12465458[source]▶
I use owncloud (and then dropbox inside it so some files are double backed up). I find it to be just fine. Have you had any problems with it?
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ptomato ◴[09 Sep 16 21:13 UTC] No.12466094[source]▶
Yes, last time I tried it, had a variety of conflict issues plus the client had some problems, performance and otherwise. If you're just using it as a backup solution (does it even keep file history?) from a single machine + mobile/web access, it may well work acceptably.
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1. nameauser ◴[10 Sep 16 19:04 UTC] No.12470468[source]▶
Being curious. What is "a variety of conflict issues"? Also could you perhaps expand on "the client had some problems"? Which client? I know an official Windows client exists as well as an Android client (this latter I use), but all communications are via HTTP (DAV for file transfers / calendar / etc. & REST for admin stuff), which means that a specific client is not necessary.

Personally, I use KDE's file manager (Dolphin). Plus a curl-cased Bash script for when I need to upload an arbitrary file from one of my home computers via my phone (SSH from phone to computer, sometimes over sat link, run "~/bin/upload.sh /some/file").

I manage my own ownCloud servers (one personal, one company), but hosted options are available.

And yes, it does keep file history (optional, enabled by default), as well as encrypted storage (optional, disabled by default).

Neither the client, nor the server even, require any administrative access.

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2. ptomato ◴[10 Sep 16 19:29 UTC] No.12470553[source]▶
I honestly am not sure, it was quite some time ago. I recall being quite unhappy with something about how it handled a sync conflict but I'm not sure of the specifics.