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What I find disappointing is their focus on photo uploads. I think users really just want to pick a best of breed provider for major features like this in their
by euroclydon 14y ago
What I find disappointing is their focus on photo uploads. I think users really just want to pick a best of breed provider for major features like this in their lives, and Facebook has photos sharing locked up.
Dropbox has brought simple file synchronization between machines that are not necessarily on the same network, to the masses, but they need to do it in away that doesn't make you want to drop Dropbox when it goes wrong. I had a machine with Dropbox installed turned off for a year, and when I turned it on, it's clock was wrong, so when I updated the clock, Dropbox deleted all files in my Dropbox that were newer than the last time I had that machine running. What did it delete? Hard to tell. And Dropbox doesn't support restoration for folders, or points in time, just single files.
- snsr 14y ago> I updated the clock, Dropbox deleted all files in my Dropbox that were newer than the last time I had that machine running. While off-topic, this is a concerning scenario that I hadn't considered.
- euroclydon 14y agoPrior to that, Dropbox just worked for me, but now I see it for the dangerous black box that it is. It can't be trusted as a backup solution for important files. It's only a convenient toy.
- chimeracoder 14y agoDoes it still have the symlink problem? (Creating a symlink and then deleting it would delete the original file).
- Gormo 14y agoIt's pretty bizarre if Dropbox is solely using client-side timestamps as the basis for comparison.
- ceejayoz 14y ago> And Dropbox doesn't support restoration for folders That's news to me. And to Dropbox: http://cl.ly/3y0r47461p443f3j300u http://cl.ly/3y0r47461p443f3j300u
- Florin_Andrei 14y agoI thought the recent update for their iPhone app, when they enabled auto-upload of photos, was the greatest thing ever. I don't use the iCloud or whatever it's called, but I do use Dropbox all the time. Auto-upload solves all sorts of issues I had, or things nagging me in the back of my mind, from realistic ones like transferring photos to computers, all the way to paranoid fantasies like "I wish I could snap a picture of this police officer and then laugh in his face - go ahead, beat me up and take the phone from me, it's too late now". :)
- zenocon 14y agoSpeaking of photos, I plugged in my iphone today, and itunes pops up this big "Send all your photos to Dropbox auto-magically" advertisement.