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Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by free2rhyme214 »

shinratdr wrote: post #41
free2rhyme214 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Google is faster at file sync than Dropbox. "Best in class sync" may have been true a few years ago. Then again no one is perfect. I've seen the green check mark missing from all my files in Google Drive at different times. Most of us are complaining about services we use for free.

> I think Google is faster at file sync than Dropbox. Speed of sync isn't much of a concern to me personally, I don't use Dropbox for big files. Reliability of sync is key for me, and for that I have never had an issue. Everything is everywhere, without exception. No conflicts or corruptions, period. > Most of us are complaining about services we use for free. I'll complain about a browser too. "Free" isn't an excuse…

I agree with your free comment, but you'll pay for iCloud when Google Photos is essentially free?

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by BorisMelnik »

Definitely something I'd like to see fixed. What I find crazy about that thread, and something I would find unacceptable is how many people on that forum basically using it as a means to advertise for the competition (Google Drive.)

Not saying that shouldn't be allowed, but you'd think the community manager would make it a point to take that feature right to the dev team. I know its not an easy fix, but definitely something that would immediately satisfy a large group of users.

Not to mention from a 'green' perspective the amount of CPU cycles, Wi-Fi packets, etc that could be saved from fixing this.

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by addandsubtract »

zzleeper wrote: post #26
shinratdr wrote: post #9

Poor performance, broken in Windows when using roaming profiles, storing binaries in the user's roaming AppData folder on Windows, DLL injection in Windows and god-knows-what in OS X to alter Explorer & Finder icons, low base storage. The only thing Dropbox has going for it is that somehow, everyone else is worse. Core syncing and client reliability is just trash across the board for all the other providers. But Drop…

What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... For instance, I can't exclude folders and extensions, which messes up my workflow a lot (e.g. I can't exclude .git folders)

You can ignore .git folders before initializing your repository [0]

[0] http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-...

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by KuhlMensch »

I use Seafile, I've not looked at how secure it is, so I only store non-sensitive stuff on it. Its not a "Dropbox but better", its different with different controls. I use to to selectively sync folders, and preference files. Other than that I can't really say much, the mobile app shat itself last time I tried to back up photos (~2 months ago). Its wobbly, but I still prefer it over Dropbox at the moment.

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by hyperknot »

addandsubtract wrote: post #53
zzleeper wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... For instance, I can't exclude folders and extensions, which messes up my workflow a lot (e.g. I can't exclude .git folders)

You can ignore .git folders before initializing your repository [0] [0] http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-...

About using the selective sync dialog: it takes me about 5 minutes to just load the folder list in the GUI, and it's on a quad-core Macbook Pro with 120 Mbps internet.

I believe a perfect solution for power-users would be a support for '.nodropbox' files, which would disable selective sync for a given directory and it's subfolders.

An even better idea would be '.dropboxignore' files, using the same syntax as '.gitignore'.

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by voltagex_ »

shinratdr wrote: post #9

Poor performance, broken in Windows when using roaming profiles, storing binaries in the user's roaming AppData folder on Windows, DLL injection in Windows and god-knows-what in OS X to alter Explorer & Finder icons, low base storage. The only thing Dropbox has going for it is that somehow, everyone else is worse. Core syncing and client reliability is just trash across the board for all the other providers. But Drop…

Interesting!

https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-d...

https://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2...

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by shinratdr »

free2rhyme214 wrote: post #51
shinratdr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think Google is faster at file sync than Dropbox. Speed of sync isn't much of a concern to me personally, I don't use Dropbox for big files. Reliability of sync is key for me, and for that I have never had an issue. Everything is everywhere, without exception. No conflicts or corruptions, period. > Most of us are complaining about services we use for free. I'll complain about a browser too. "Free" isn't an excuse…

I agree with your free comment, but you'll pay for iCloud when Google Photos is essentially free?

Yep, because it's built into iOS at the system-level. I also don't like Google and I generally avoid all their services except Search & Maps.

Re: Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

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Post by blakeyrat »

lazy_lizard wrote: post #35
blakeyrat wrote: post #29

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Years ago I tried to buy a gift subscription of Dropbox for a friend so we could collaborate. Still impossible. These guys can't even manage GIFT CERTIFICATES, I'm not surprised they have trouble with actual technical issues.

https://www.dropbox.com/gift

Wow, that must be brand-new. I was looking for it a couple months ago, and all I found was a million support posts about "why don't you offer gift accounts?" and a few promises that it was coming soon, really, posted back in like 2009.
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