How to exhaust the space on any online backup system

Check the other article I wrote about Dropbox.

While playing with the mklink, I made a mistake of trying something new:

mklink /D S t:S

Remember that the Dropbox folder was located in T:S.

So, basically I created a circular reference… and this is what happened:

 

This is what was transferred until when I stopped the Dropbox program after receiving errors that I run of space:

Apparently, Dropbox doesn’t have any kind of loop detection.

I will let them know that…

 


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