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Dropbox for Business
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Re: Dropbox for Business
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. The concept of version works like backup for full fledge systems (SVN, git), but not what Dropbox exposes. Dropbox keeps version of _existing_ files. You won't get back the files deleted and synched by mistake/misbehavior of some script. A backup would keep the files. You'll also have different behaviors if you need to bring back a set of data (i.e. all your files as they were two days ago). You'll be in…
> Dropbox keeps version of _existing_ files. You won't get back the files deleted and synched by mistake/misbehavior of some script Err, that is exactly what they provide. You do have to use the web interface to see them, and it is trivial to restore directories and files. (A bit painful if you want to only restore some of the files in a directory.)
Thanks for the correction.
Before posting I actually deleted a file and went to the web interface to check but couldn't find anything looking like that feature. I know they basically have a git like file management, but thought they just didn't expose past deleted files (clicking on the events timeline just moves to the folder the file belonged without any further information).
For anyone making the same mistake, the trashcan left to the search box in the action bar, it's not to delete stuff, like it does in the OSX Finder bar. It's to show past deleted files in the current folder (they then appear grayed out in the listing).
Fairly OT, but even knowing what the icon does, the is a thrill going to my spine when clicking this trash icon. But to be fair, the image is not wrong, it's just the habit of the OSX Finder.
Re: Dropbox for Business
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Dropbox keeps version of _existing_ files. You won't get back the files deleted and synched by mistake/misbehavior of some script Err, that is exactly what they provide. You do have to use the web interface to see them, and it is trivial to restore directories and files. (A bit painful if you want to only restore some of the files in a directory.)
Thanks for the correction. Before posting I actually deleted a file and went to the web interface to check but couldn't find anything looking like that feature. I know they basically have a git like file management, but thought they just didn't expose past deleted files (clicking on the events timeline just moves to the folder the file belonged without any further information). For anyone making the same mistake, the…
BTW they keep old/deleted versions of files for 30 days for all users, and indefinitely for business plans. It also doesn't count against the quota.
Description and video showing accessing old files is at https://www.dropbox.com/help/113/en
Re: Dropbox for Business
#124give users one Dropbox for personal stuff and another for work stuff. Users can easily access both Dropboxes from any of their devices. Sounds awesome! Minimum 5 users Well, phooey. This seems...arbitrary. Do they enforce this limit just to reduce support queries from low-profit customers?
> Do they enforce this limit just to reduce support queries from low-profit customers? Almost certainly. To quote patio11: "Pathological customers: they get things for free and then ask for their money back." The more money a business has, the more professional it can afford to be (literally) in dealing with you. If you want 80% of the money with 20% of the effort, draw a line between the head of your profit distribu…
I totally understand the reasoning.
Re: personal + shared folder, that starts to get a little messy when you're sharing folders/joining shared folders with outside people. Doable, but messy. Another option is one account for the business, with e.g. 2 people logged into it. I do this, plus a hacky workaround to also have a personal account logged in on my laptop.
Re: Dropbox for Business
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google does not currently pool the storage, but will move to that model in coming quarters.
How do you know this. Have they announced pooled storage?
I think they have the capability already and offer it as a carrot if you're a O365 customer or serious prospect.
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#126Did anyone read the comments by the owner of DMS? It's such a funny thing to see a legal/offer exchange in comments. I'd love to know the background of that discussion.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
We tried to move to Google Drive but are about to go all in for Dropbox for Business. The Google Drive desktop sync client (for Mac at least) is just not reliable enough. Make sure you trial Google Drive first.
The Google Drive sync client is lacking features for business. But third party Google Drive sync clients like Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com make it better than Dropbox.
Not features; reliability. We have fairly modest Enterprise® requirements, but we do shunt around medium-size files quite often and expect them to be synchronized around the office as well as Dropbox manages it.
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#128Hmmm, I already had two dropboxes running on my computer (one personal and one business) using Dropbox Encore and I have my work Dropbox (much bigger than personal Dropbox) to sync to another folder on my regular hard drive -- personal syncs to my smaller SSD. Linking my accounts (which obviates the need for Dropbox Encore) seems to want to create a new Dropbox folder to download all my work things and not give me a…
Seems like symlinks could solve your problem in the mean time.
yeah, that's how I eventually worked around it...
Re: Dropbox for Business
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a business expense for a 50+ person company, that's over $9000 a year. That doesn't seem like a no-brainer, especially when Google will give me Apps (including Drive) for $50/year/person.
A 50+ person company is burning >$5,000,000 on salary + benefits + office space.
Yes, but for $9000/year, I could very easily stand up a server, backups, and a VPN to access more than 1TB of data.