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Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by mynameisvlad »

SmellTheGlove wrote: post #68
mynameisvlad wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneDrive has been around for 10 years and we're one of the best known companies for backwards compatibility and keeping things far past their prime (Hotmail/Outlook.com, for instance, which has been out for 21 years, albeit only 20 under the company.) What makes you think it's going to be surprise-discontinued?

Probably more detail than I can really articulate, but I've lately perceived a shift in how Microsoft wants to support legacy and maybe getting more aggressive in taking a stance in eliminating some. Right now Microsoft seems really high on cloud, particularly as a means to make Office a subscription product (which helps with legacy support, as in the long run, there are no legacy versions to support in this model).…

You are right, your quota will depend on when you got the account and what you did. At various times, we had 5, 7, 15, and 25GB for free. When the big nerf happened from 25 to 7 (I think that's the one you're talking about), existing accounts could opt in to 25GB (personally, was not a fan that it was opt-in) for life. Same thing happened to the O365 offering, nerfed from unlimited to 1TB which is more reasonable, I don't know why anyone would offer unlimited storage honestly, that's just an open call for abuse.

Edit: For me, after Apple actually decided to integrate iCloud into macOS, I felt more secure about it staying, but before that it definitely felt like a pet project that might be abandoned. I still don't fully trust it with my documents, but since I have an iPhone, I have well over 15GB of photos and videos uploaded that I'd like to see stay for a while. :)

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by jpalomaki »

hellofunk wrote: post #36
jpalomaki wrote: post #29

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Smart sync is great news, happy to pay the extra for that. Setting up on new computer has been painful since full sync takes couple of days (lots of small files). With smart it would be actually possible to travel with empty disk and sync needed files on destination.

> Setting up on new computer has been painful What about Selective Sync which has been there for years?

Not very convenient when you have lots of files and deep structures. Selecting the stuff you need through that dialog is quite inconvenient (although doable, this is what I have been using to get the most important files on my computer first).

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by StanAngeloff »

I wonder if axing public folders was partially done because of the, at the time, upcoming Dropbox Professional? If you could share an interactive HTML mockup as part of the free service, there is little incentive to pay extra for a professional service.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by [deleted] »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #60

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years? https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

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Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by dabernathy89 »

npkarnik wrote: post #63
dabernathy89 wrote: post #60

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years? https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

I don't work at Dropbox, but I believe it's ignored by design. Fewer users would upgrade their storage to the paid plans.

I hadn't even considered that TBH.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ferdbold »

kayoone wrote: post #24
superdaniel wrote: post #19

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I noticed that too and that would definitely be a shame to have such a downgrade. I see how Dropbox is trying to diversify their prices based on features. But honestly, they should try to compete harder with providers like Apple and Google by providing different storage tiers. Apple has 2TB for the same $9.99/mo Dropbox provides 1TB. At this point Dropbox has me mostly because of inertia and their reliability.

not only Apple and Google, compared to Office365 for $99 per year which includes 1TB Onedrive + full Office for up to 5 users, i don't see how dropbox is worth it nowadays

Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by Nition »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #60

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years? https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

Similarly: "Stop auto-inheriting new folders when using selective sync"[1]

Another many-page thread from 2014.

It's a big problem everywhere, but especially in business settings where there's often tons of data and anyone adding a new folder to Dropbox ends up syncing that new folder to everyone, whether they want anything to do with it or not.

For personal use it sucks when you only want to sync a few folders to e.g. a PC with a small hard drive, or if you've got a data cap.

The new "online only" option is nice but "don't auto-sync new folders" is a seemingly simple option that's been missing for years. OneDrive has it.[1]

[1] https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...

[2] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-which-OneDri... "If you're choosing folders on two computers and you create a new folder on computer A that you want to sync to computer B, you'll need to go to computer B and select the new folder there."

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by [deleted] »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #60

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years? https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

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