#psa Okay, learned a lesson today. I either missed this or the setting changed in an update. Both #OneDrive and #Dropbox have a setting for keeping all the files in the cloud rather than on your Mac, downloading them as you need them. This means that if you need them and the service is responding poorly, or you have no connectivity, you can't get to your files. If you use #scrivener, for example, which syncs through dropbox, this can cause sync errors between devices!
Both services appear to set all files online only. Both services have a way to change this to ensure all files are downloaded for offline use.
#Writers, #authors, as well as #artists, I strongly suggest you keep your files on disk as well as in the cloud. Change these settings now!
Okay. Interesting. Moving files from Dropbox creates placeholder files that are empty but take up space. There's a little cloud symbol beside the files in the dropbox directories, but they refused to download. Sheesh. Luckily, the files exist online. I've logged on to the online dropbox and downloaded all my files to my hard disk in a separate directory as a backup. I'm trying bypassing the dropbox refused to sync issue by signing out of dropbox and orphaning the current directories. Signing on again, but creating new dropbox directory tree on disk that must be downloaded again from the #dropbox#cloud.Hoping that this fixes the #sync problems I'm having between platforms, at least from the Mac perspective.
And Bam! Less than 10 minutes later, #dropbox has laid down all the files from the #cloud in the new directories. #Scrivener opens the previously damage project (because dropbox had refused to download things) with everything consistent with the iPhone version. Yay!
Here's another rant about a large corporation bending us over a chair with a huge security breach. But first the bits emailed to me from Dropbox:
"We can confirm that Dropbox Sign customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers, hashed passwords, multi-factor authentication, and general account settings were obtained."
Me: Fuck you Dropbox
"At Dropbox, our number one value is to be worthy of trust. We hold ourselves to a high standard when protecting our customers and their content. We didn’t live up to that standard here, and we’re deeply sorry for the impact it caused our customers."
Super weird to me that Dropbox has told Dropbox Sign customers to "delete your existing entry and then reset it" if they use app-based MFA. I have never seen "delete your MFA and create new tokens" in post-compromise account hygiene advice before.
I suspect two things:
1.) Dropbox was storing plain text MFA seeds right next to their password hashes
2.) We're going to hear a lot more about this soon.
If you use Dropbox you should probably change your password.
Headline: #Dropbox Hacked! Threat Actor Accessed Passwords and Phone Numbers
Snippet: A quick analysis revealed that a threat actor had broken in to access customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, as well as general account settings and certain authentication information (API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication).
vi ricordiamo che da 1 anno tutti gli utenti di #MastodonUno possono fare richiesta di un account Nextcloud da 25GB per poter conservare e condividere file senza le limitazioni presenti su mastodon.
Nextcloud è un progetto open source e permette di importare automaticamente tutti i file dall'account #dropbox.
Questo è il modulo di richiesta per ricevere i dati di accesso:
Cloud storage company #Dropbox reported that a hacker breached company systems on April 24 and gained access to sensitive information like passwords and more.
Wrote a #Bash script to use WP-CLI to dump the database, then #Rclone to sync the files to Dropbox.
It pings HealthChecks.io to monitor progress & success/fail.
That was finally working well. 👍
Then calling it from a #cronjob revealed the need to use full paths to commands like #PHP & WP-CLI. Took a bit to find (force) the logging of the cron to see what was wrong.
Still unclear why some commands (curl, etc) work fine.
The nice thing, is using the sync mode of #Rclone means the initial upload took ages but successive backups only do the changed files so it's pretty quick.
Also had to debug ways to ease back the rate limiting from #Dropbox, luckily there was some good info about this in the Rclone discussion forums.
It cracks me up that Rclone refuses to sync Thumbs.db files. It spits an error when it encounters them. Even file copy utilities hate these! 🤣 This was an effective way to find and purge these.
In particular WHY that particular method? need cross device/platform? 2 b available online? What (about this, or any method) are challenges to you? Do you struggle to organize your notes? What would you wish was better?
#Police in Plymouth Township, #Michigan are investigating whether a lighting system that was set up by a mystery person to flash when someone approached a #ballot#DropBox was an attempt to #intimidate#voters.
James Knittel, the Twsp chief of the #police, said in the weeks before #Michigan's Feb 27 presidential #primary, the mystery person installed a fake camera on a pole near the drop box & a device that was similar to a motion detector.
Knittel said it appeared the person intended for the device to flash when someone walked up to the #ballot#DropBox "as if it was taking a picture.”
PlymouthTwp posted an image Tues on FB of the person who installed the equipment at the #ballot#DropBox outside Risen Christ Lutheran Church on AnnArbor Rd, which also was an #EarlyVoting location. The post from the twp asked anyone w/info on the individual to contact the #police at (734) 354-3250.
The twp had its own cameras monitoring the drop box which captured images of the person installing the fake camera in Jan & the solar-powered lighting device in early Feb.
@alexjsp@Daojoan absolutely is. They haven't added features or spoken about it in a very, very long time. Quite surprising actually that they haven't looked to this new AI content era as an excuse to bring some focus back to Paper.
I do wonder why they didn't try harder to compete. Launching a #Dropbox email service to go with Paper and the core Dropbox product would've made it a pretty appealing prospect for people wanting out of #Google and #Microsoft.