How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

Post by abraham » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 7:02 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #147

napoleond wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait a sec, does this mean when I delete my files they are ... not being deleted? This is true of almost every service on the internet. If it wasn't, whenever the only disk that had your account on it failed you would be absolutely livid about the fact that they never made any backups. (It is generally infeasible to purge backups of any deleted data, because they're stored in compressed blobs.)

> This is true of almost every service on the internet can you back this claim up somehow? I recall Flicker losing bunch of profiles (photos) permanently because once its deleted, well its deleted. What you are confusing is planned backups, in case of hard drive failure, and the fact that customer executed delete command and consent to get those files deleted. two different things.

Post by zaidf » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 7:04 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #86

If I were Dropbox, and designing this feature, I'd have created two folders inside the master Dropbox folder. "Personal" and "Teams" then inside the "Teams" folder, I'd have created a folder for each team a person is invited to join. I realize that structure wasn't in-place when Dropbox was first created, complicating the matter - but it seems like it would have provided the cleanest way to delineate what files and a…

Post by robomartin » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

sean_lynch wrote: post #119

Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…

    git add .
    git commit -am "Account state prior to joining teams"
    
    git branch personal
    git branch team_x
    git branch team_y
    
    git checkout team_x
    git commit -am "Initial commit for team_x"
    git commit -am "Did some more work for team_x"
    
    git checkout team_y
    git commit -am "Initial commit for team_y"
    git commit -am "Did some more work for team_y"
    
    git checkout personal
    git commit -am "Added Dad folder for xmas pictures"

    git branch -D team_x
    git branch -D team_y
    

Post by 1123581321 » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 7:21 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #139

sean_lynch wrote: post #119

Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…

> Disabled accounts are not immediately deleted: We can work with Teams admins and users to sort out account issues and recover users’ files. Wait a sec, does this mean when I delete my files they are ... not being deleted? > We’ve contacted the OP to help resolve his case and are sorry for any pain this caused! Great, good for him. So basically next time when I or others have problems with Dropbox, post a rant about…

Post by apike » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

sean_lynch wrote: post #119

Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…