This let me get rid of that dangling 256MB that had been lingering since I opened the account and got the first free 256MB. That has been bothering my OCD. Now I have an even 12GB.
Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
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Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#122I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
Why does Dropbox expect casual users to understand concepts like symlinks in order to sync their desktops (or any existing folder outside of the dropbox directory for that matter)?
Are their plans to make this more intuitive, given this is how you yourself find dropbox most useful?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
When people say Dropbox is missing encryption, they mean encrypting files before they are uploaded so not even Dropbox could look at the files - end to end, so to speak. They do not mean that Dropbox is insecure. Dropbox is secure. The problem with end to end is that it makes sharing or public files unfeasible, and those are important parts of Dropbox.
Have you considered making encryption available on a per-folder basis? The encryption would be done on the client side so it wouldn't incur any additional computational expense for your servers, but would still provide the peace of mind that many look for with TrueCrypt containers. This could be even be done in a way to allow the user to choose his implementation.
If you want to do that then encrypt the files with truecrypt or something you trust and let DB sync the truecrypt container file.
But everytime you slightly change the contents, Dropbox will have to resend the entire container - thats one of the features of good encryption
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#124I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
I'm a passionate amateur photographer, and after a bad crash where I lost years of work I became really neurotic about my multi-site recovery plan. Today I have Drobos and Time Capsules spread around my house and office, plus Dropbox and even a few rsync cron jobs all keeping me calm. Today, my Aperture library is 109GB, because I work with archival scans from medium format film. TL;DR: 100GB is a very small limit. H…
But do you really want to pull down 109GB on every laptop you install Dropbox on? Or would you manage that via multiple Dropbox accounts? From what I can tell, Dropbox hasn't yet tried out the "backup solutions" space, but I'm also hoping they will, as most of my machines are constantly running out of disk space.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#125I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
A dropbox server to run locally for company data that we don't want in the cloud (chargeable or free).
Any plans along those lines?
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#126This idea is brilliant. Probably one of the best viral marketing campaigns I've seem.
How badly did I want the extra space? I joined twitter because of it.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a passionate amateur photographer, and after a bad crash where I lost years of work I became really neurotic about my multi-site recovery plan. Today I have Drobos and Time Capsules spread around my house and office, plus Dropbox and even a few rsync cron jobs all keeping me calm. Today, my Aperture library is 109GB, because I work with archival scans from medium format film. TL;DR: 100GB is a very small limit. H…
But do you really want to pull down 109GB on every laptop you install Dropbox on? Or would you manage that via multiple Dropbox accounts? From what I can tell, Dropbox hasn't yet tried out the "backup solutions" space, but I'm also hoping they will, as most of my machines are constantly running out of disk space.
One of the best (and yet seemingly little-known) tricks that Dropbox uses is that it will sync over a local LAN before attempting to download from S3.
Between the tight OS integration and the hash table lookups (it checks to see if that MP3 is already in their storage cloud, leading to regular "instant upload" scenarios) I believe that Dropbox is the best new software tool of the decade.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered making encryption available on a per-folder basis? The encryption would be done on the client side so it wouldn't incur any additional computational expense for your servers, but would still provide the peace of mind that many look for with TrueCrypt containers. This could be even be done in a way to allow the user to choose his implementation.
If you want to do that then encrypt the files with truecrypt or something you trust and let DB sync the truecrypt container file. But everytime you slightly change the contents, Dropbox will have to resend the entire container - thats one of the features of good encryption
I do this currently, but I wish there was a more elegant solution.
As far as I can tell from my own usage, the only portion that is uploaded is the changed portion. I have a 1GB container currently synced and when I change files in that container, I can assure you that it doesn't upload 1GB of information. It appears to only transfer the delta.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#129I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
This experiment is awesome. Dropbox is lucky to have you. (So is Luka. :-)
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#130I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
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