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I am not OP, but what it reportedly does is when a new file appears, if the clocks aren't exactly in sync, instead of "spreading" that file to other machines, it instead immediately deletes it because other machines are "newer" and don't have the file (or something).

There is some kind of strange race condition with the syncing. It doesn't always happen. In fact it doesn't happen very often. But most people won't accept even a "rare" random file deletion from a product they're using to protect themselves from exactly that kind of data loss.




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