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Force Dropbox on Mac OS X to Respect Your Disk Space

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Dropbox is one of those tools without which it’s probably no longer possible for me to live. It just syncs files between my computers, and it makes those same files accessible through any Web browser. It’s not like my love for it is . The Problem But it so happens that over the last year or so, I’ve increasingly run into a pretty major issue: Dropbox on my MacBook Pro will happily fill its .dropbox.cache folder with gigabytes upon gigabytes of files, sometimes filling 50+GB of disk space before finally the system chokes up and apps start crashing because, as…

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Updated Topify Gmail Filters

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Well, Twitter got prettier follow and direct message notifications today. Bully for them. Now I have to publish this update. Update (05/07, 22:45): My update was broken, so the update had to be updated. The filter should now catch DMs, too. Believe it or not, I was wrong that Twitter changed the address that direct message notifications come from; it stayed the same. So that part of the filter didn’t need to change. All’s well that ends well, right? Update 2 (05/07, 23:05): Well, scratch the new filters. Twitter went back to the old From addresses tonight. Y’all can use…

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