Did the author actually verify this with strace (or the mac/windows equivalent)?
It sounds like he guessed this based on I/O activity of the process. It could be enough to hash the beginning of the files, and compare the rest if a match is found in the database.
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Did the author actually verify this with strace (or the mac/windows equivalent)?
It sounds like he guessed this based on I/O activity of the process. It could be enough to hash the beginning of the files, and compare the rest if a match is found in the database.
Dropbox doesn't read the file content. There is also no proof that Dropbox directly accesses those files.