It looks nifty but why is sign in required to use it?
It automatically stores your captures to your dropbox account. Would be good to allow you to store locally as well though.
Dropbox Capture
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#52Don't understand. What's wrong with just pasting a screenshot or recording into Slack or your PM tool of choice? Adding Dropbox is just adding another layer of auth, sharing permissions, storage quotas, etc.... ugh
It should be seamless. You just record a video and it is instantly shareable. Could be useful for reporting UI bugs. You can also use the mic to describe the problem.
It's the opposite of seamless, no? Instead of pasting the video (which macOS and Windows can both natively record) into your bug tracker or Slack, you have to first upload it to Dropbox Capture, share the link to that, worry about permissions and storage, etc... it adds more friction than it removes
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#53I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That's just bloat to me. So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they're selling here. Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much differen…
Same here. I love Dropbox, but more and more often I am completely quitting and closing the Dropbox client because it takes over the computer processing. I welcome all the new features they are developing, I just wish they would release a Dropbox Light client that didn't try to have those features or anything more than a sync utility. I miss the old menu-bar Dropbox that I never even noticed it was running...
Sounds like my Linux Dropbox client. I never notice it whatsoever. In fact, this post made me check if it's still there and yup, it is, keeping my entire Code folder synced between computers.
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#54I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That's just bloat to me. So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they're selling here. Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much differen…
> everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files Dropbox feels more and more like Evernote all the time. I don't know what is the purpose of this product. To get people to pay $10/month for their storage service? I can get a family plan from Microsoft with 1 TB of storage for each of six people, plus their office apps, for $100/year. I can get 2 TB from Google or Apple for the same price as Dropbox, but they…
Dropbox syncs anything you put on your file system across computers, the others don't.
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#55> To get started, visit dropbox.com/capture on your Windows or macOS computer to download the app. So, no Linux client. Dropbox is one of the few companies which had a proper linux client for syncing files. It is a pity that they are now releasing products which do not have linux support.
As soon as Linux desktop software becomes anyway profitable to develop and maintain, I’m sure companies like Dropbox will build for it. That’s not Dropbox’s problem. It doesn’t help that Linux isn’t really a single OS but a bunch of different distro’s, file systems, installers, making building a single client impossible. oh and horrible entitlement thrown in for good measure. Get that house in order and maybe it’ll b…
How is it impossible when I'm literally using Dropbox, VS Code, Datagrip, Firefox, Bitwarden, Telegram on Linux every day?
There is a huge amount of high quality cross platform apps out there, and my Linux desktop is not only fast, it's also extreamly reliable and has no Microsoft or Apple inside.
Dropbox can't make file sharing cross platform? That's frankly ridicolous.
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#56If you are on a Mac you can do screen recording for free with a non-beta app that comes with the OS: QuickTime Player (assuming Dropbox will eventually charge for their product).
There's also a good Open Source app that allows you to do that: https://obsproject.com/ Particularly if for some reason you want you face to be shown during screen capture.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files Dropbox feels more and more like Evernote all the time. I don't know what is the purpose of this product. To get people to pay $10/month for their storage service? I can get a family plan from Microsoft with 1 TB of storage for each of six people, plus their office apps, for $100/year. I can get 2 TB from Google or Apple for the same price as Dropbox, but they…
For me the point of Dropbox is sync that works so well that I can even manage development projects on the shared folder. In my experience the Microsoft syncing is not even close match. This is likely also problem for Dropbox. For heavy users their main costs must come from bandwidth and processing - not raw storage.
I use syncthing doing that across Linux, macOS and windows. It's fire and forget.
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#58Every time I hear about Dropbox I think of VisiCalc [0].
They (Dropbox) made sharing data so easy and gave it a native feel, at least on MacOS. And eventually OSes rolled out the same features (iCloud, OneDrive), the same way VisiCalc was steamrolled by other spreadsheet software.
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#59I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That's just bloat to me. So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they're selling here. Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much differen…
Dropbox really is great. I used them in college and it was always effective yet painless. Since then I've used google because it integrates so well with everything from youtube to google office, but it's file syncing just isn't that great. I've been meaning to move away from google for file backups; I think I'll check out dropbox again.
Or does anybody have something recommend over dropbox and google?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not even the demo video shows properly in Firefox on Linux, as it’s HEVC in a Quicktime container…
I see webm on chrome: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
This is what I get in firefox on linux: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...