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Re: My Windows 11 tribulations or how I spent my summer



Reply to note from Harry Binswanger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:47:28
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Harry,

> "Pack rat" was what they called it a dozen years ago (or more)
> when I began on Dropbox.

Edward,

> Dropbox hasn't offered the PackRat option since around 2014, ...

Ah, so it was a Dropbox feature. The version-history facility that comes with my (paid) Dropbox
package is more than sufficient for my purposes, as 99 times out of 100 I'm seeking to retrieve the
most recent version of a file -- that is, the most recent existent + non-corrupt version, after the
occasional lapsus calami.

I'll also mention that U2 has its own version-history feature, called VerSA. This is my go-to
versioning tool, with Dropbox as the failsafe for when calamity strikes.

-- 
Carl Distefano
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