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I hate to be "that guy," but...
Authored by: tempel on Dec 03, '10 06:17:36AM

While the hint is indeed not a good hint, the responses (but yours) here are helpful: They all show that doing this is actually dangerous, and unexpectedly so.

So, while the hint alone is rather useless, the warnings about the dangers of doing it that way are valuable. Hence, in summary, it's good that this hint appears here in order to warn others.



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I hate to be "that guy," but...
Authored by: leamanc on Dec 03, '10 12:47:21PM

That's the most specious reasoning I have seen in a long time. If the site is going to run hints so that people can post how bad they are, then we might as well shut down the site now.

And all the warnings about how "dangerous" Dropbox syncing of data directories is, are actually pretty moot points as long as the same app is not running on multiple Dropbox-enabled computers.



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I hate to be "that guy," but...
Authored by: tempel on Dec 03, '10 12:59:05PM

But that's the whole point of this hint - sharing the Things database between multiple Macs, isn't it?



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