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Regarding sensitive / confidential info, why not set up a volume with TrueCrypt that you can just mount when needed for sensitive stuff?



I used to do this for passwords and such. The problem was that the file would become un-synched and I'd end up with several "<computer name>'s version..." copies. The problem is that with Dropbox you aren't accessing a single file, you're accessing a local copy. So concurrent access, especially when a file is being held open on Windows, creates problems.


Because dropbox will save bandwidth by only updating the parts of files that have changed. If you use truecrypt the entire file will change for every small change you do. Basically you lose any advantage of using dropbox over a standard FTP system.


If it's only a KeePass database or a small (1MB?) TrueCrypt volume for text/documents, the traffic still won't ever become appreciable. Also, you're implying that the only selling point for Dropbox is that it uses deltas, which is far from true.


Yeah but you can opt to only use encrypted volumes for certain files that don't have to be accessed daily.

You don't take advantage of Dropbox fully, but it's still pretty convenient to be able to sync that small encrypted volume containing tax reports etc.


Actually dropbox and truecrypt work really well together, even with large truecrypt containers because of the way truecrypt updates its container on file changes.




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