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Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by ihuman » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

orthoganol wrote: post #19

curiousDog wrote: post #3

Dropbox is one of those products that is just a pleasure to use (like Stripe). Sync works seamlessly. I've tried all other alternatives and gotten back to being a paid customer of Dropbox. I think it also boils down to most of your employees being passionate, smart folks from MIT, CMU and the like. Good luck to them with the IPO.

I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?

Its still like that, but you can just create a symbolic link to the folder outside. Dropbox will follow the link and sync the files.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by 1_2__3 » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #2

I talked to a friend just before Christmas whose firm made a good portion of their returns on the insight that VC firms, IPO participants and the market in general all have gaps in how they evaluate the worth of a company and the fact that this gap has grown significantly in the past 5 years. Previously, companies went public much sooner and you could expect a match, not an exact one, but in the same ball park, betwe…

I've gone through 6 startup IPOs since 1999 in the valley, and have watched as it went from a way to reward employees to a whole lot of voodoo bullshit. I'm a little stunned when I see people still talking about the startups they work for and possibly making it big - that doesn't happen anymore. You are being lied to.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by johnchristopher » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

orthoganol wrote: post #19

curiousDog wrote: post #3

Dropbox is one of those products that is just a pleasure to use (like Stripe). Sync works seamlessly. I've tried all other alternatives and gotten back to being a paid customer of Dropbox. I think it also boils down to most of your employees being passionate, smart folks from MIT, CMU and the like. Good luck to them with the IPO.

I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?

Which alternative are you using ? (if any)

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by B1FF_PSUVM » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

mikeevans wrote: post #10

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay $100/year for Pro. Cheaper and easier to have 1TB of remote storage than SD cards, USB sticks, etc, and no excessive bandwidth charges such that AWS has. EDIT: I don't care if my files are encrypted. EDIT 2: Dropbox sync is rock solid. Every experience with the Google Drive sync client has been trash. I can (and do) pay for convenience.

Any reason that you use it over Google Drive?

For that kind of money, one can get a five-pack Office 365 with one TB storage and MS apps thrown in for each user.

(Unless MS changes their mind again - they already did last year, stiffing Lumia customers, and so I bought a NAS instead of signing up.)

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by Retric » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

bsharitt wrote: post #12

Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space for a couple of bucks a month, but I just don't need 1TB for $10 a month. So instead I use Google and wait in vain for a native Linux client that's probably never coming.

Pro is $8.25 / month for 1TB on annual billing. I rarely see monthly pricing for under 5$. So, I don't think it's going to drop much at this point. https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1

IMO, 1TB is completly reasonble. You can get ~10 GB of storage several places for free which covers most things and minmaxing 2-3$ per month is generally a waste of time.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by orthoganol » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

ihuman wrote: post #21

orthoganol wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?

Its still like that, but you can just create a symbolic link to the folder outside. Dropbox will follow the link and sync the files.

EDIT - great, I will give Dropbox another shot.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by yawniek » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

dropbox lost me when i started to get hyper targeted spam to email addresses i only used for dropbox and haven't used for years. they seem to use a remarkably persistent cookie syncing technology.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by vthallam » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

bsharitt wrote: post #12

Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space for a couple of bucks a month, but I just don't need 1TB for $10 a month. So instead I use Google and wait in vain for a native Linux client that's probably never coming.

This is the exact reason i didn't switch to a pro yet. I love dropbox and all the syncing, but give me a plan below $5 with a relative storage. Google Drive gives 100GB at $2, that would be an amazing start for Dropbox.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:28 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #20

verelo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People say this, but i actually hate it. Every time i use it i get confused, it's UI is slow and weird. I prefer Google Drive, but I might be a weird user.

Why are you using the web UI? Dropbox is at its best as just a folder on your hard drive that works like any other, except it effectively exists simultaneously on all your devices.

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Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by bhalperin » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:30 PM UTC

ihuman wrote: post #21

orthoganol wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?

Its still like that, but you can just create a symbolic link to the folder outside. Dropbox will follow the link and sync the files.

Dropbox does not cooperate well with symlinks. For instance, if you create a symlink in your Dropbox folder to My Documents on Windows, the Dropbox folder will duplicate the My Documents files. Takes up twice the space.