You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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New named Dropbox structure
I am a user of DropBox Business, on Windows 10.
Last week, I suddenly realized that the shortcuts to some of my Dropbox folders were broken.
A quick look learned me that the structure had changed...
First post... but today, I received my "Important changes to your Dropbox account" e-mail.
We have a ton of client files, organized by client, with access restricted by team groupings. The first thing I did was postpone the 'upgrade' until Oct 14th, to give me time to find a new solution.
Honestly, I am having a hard time (a) understanding the e-mail's contents, as well as the "upcoming business team changes" help document, and (b) I am struggling to see what problem this is solving for me or anyone else.
One thing is for sure: this looks like a great time to move our agency off of Dropbox. I've been considering this for some time for the following reasons:
- The whole 'off-line/on-line' files things has been a real headache, as Dropbox seems to quietly change the setting back to online only, from time-to-time, which makes syncing with a local copy for editing difficult.
- Some of my teammates have had sync issues with M1 macs, resulting in automatically generated conflict copies being created.
- Sharing a folder with people outside of the organization is difficult, unless you purchase a Dropbox for Business seat for the recipient.
- For working files, you really need TWO copies of your files on your hard drive, which means my teammates are all lugging around external drives for Dropbox to hold the complete copies of their client files, as most new laptops don't have a ton of free space.
- Dropbox recently changed the restore feature from 'forever' to 'one year', unless you pay an upgrade fee.
And now, this forced re-organization of content that looks to a ton of work on our side to get back to where we are, today.
I was an early adopter of Dropbox, but I think we are moving our content elsewhere.
I am glad to hear you got the email before the "mandatory Upgrade".
We were not so lucky and are looking elsewhere to store our files since we have to do all our setup again anyways.
I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one caught off guard/surprised they were doing this.
Good Luck on your endeavors.
