>Until you once day accidentally press "delete" on the wrong file in your Drop Box folder.

Yup. But that may actually be a feature - in some cases for synching that's exactly what you want.

If you don't then the application can just use the DropBox folder as a 'drop box' where it can check for new files and copy the files in or out when needed.

+++ Rick ---

>>Why not integrate with something like DropBox or OneDrive? That way you can simply copy the file to the Dropbox/OneDrive folder as a regular file.
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>>>We want to add to our application the possibility of making remote backups of zipped data across the internet, probably in space we would rent from Amazon.
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>FYI to anyone you give this advice to, it's awesome and works nice and slick.
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>Until you once day accidentally press "delete" on the wrong file in your Drop Box folder.
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>The syncing magic behind it will remove the file from all the places it magically put it.
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>Perhaps not the desired effect for something you're trying to backup.