dropbox (was: Best practice for Documents directory: looking for comments on) my current setup

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Cory Myers <cfm at panix.com> [2009.05.13.1747 +0200]:
> One of the neat things about Dropbox, actually, is that every
> machine you link to your Dropbox account has a complete copy of
> your data. Even if you unlink a computer, it keeps its copy. The
> Dropbox folks would have to actively *delete* all the data in all
> accounts for you to lose any of your local copies.

Do they do anything other than remote storage and synchronisation
based on modification times? How else do they or would they do it?
What happens if you modify the same document in two places? How does
it deal with conflicts?

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