Dropbox to Google Drive Migration Deletes Files Without Confirming Copy
A user migrating files from Dropbox to Google Drive lost a significant number of files because the source files were deleted without first confirming that the copy to the destination had completed successfully. This describes a serious data-loss risk in cross-cloud file migration.
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