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dropbox Using Dropbox For An Easy Restore Of All Your Computer's Settings Just to be clear, Dropbox isn’t backup software; it’s a syncing service. If you delete a file and that change is synced, and your file no longer exists. I really love the things you can do with Dropbox. And since I’m stingy, I wanted to use Dropbox
dropbox Backup OpenEmu Save States to Dropbox OpenEmu is one of the best ways to play your favorite retro games. A long-time feature of emulators is the “save state,” which acts like a long-term Pause button. It will save your game in the exact spot you decide (not just at a checkpoint in the game). You could
dropbox Un-clutter Your Dropbox on Mac Using chflags and ln Dropbox integrates with a lot of different apps. If you use a lot of these third-party apps, your Dropbox might start to get cluttered and look like this: I wanted to have all my third-party apps to be in a single folder called Applications. I first tried just moving the
