Dropbox 'syncs' all your files on the same partition

This guy really has no idea how shell extensions work on Windows. Other apps that overlay icons over files work the same way, including Tortoise Git/Hg/Svn.

Every time Windows Explorer displays a directory, it must check if it should draw an icon over files in that directory. It doesn't know if the directory is "special" (aka, Dropbox, git repo, etc) so it makes the check every time for all files in all directories.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...

Original article rather than the above repaste: http://www.e-siber.com/guvenlik/dropbox-accesses-all-the-fil...

And the Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2xrpgx/dropbox_...