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...
We too rely on the local sync as being the primary reason for using Dropbox. If you find a solid alternative, let us know; we are looking, too.
I'm not sure why Dropbox is pushing so hard to move everybody to the cloud, other than resources (pushing files back out to sync to clients). But when they charge hundreds of dollars per year, that's what we're paying for. There are lots of cheaper cloud storage solutions that are as good or better than Dropbox if all you want is cloud storage.
We are in the process of moving everything over to Google Drive. Our Agency is already using Google Workspace, so the cost part was easy.
It took some experimentation to understand all of the security settings, but we make the cut-over on Wednesday the 21st - the day before our business account renews. We are using GoodSync for cloud-to/from-local sync (i.e. working files), which syncs directly to/from Google Drive, on-line only (which Google calls 'streaming') will sync correctly without two local copies. In the end, I am hopeful that our cloud storage will be easier to use and will definitely use less HDD space.
Good luck!
I signed up for a free account with Sync.com and have sync'ed content to three devices very easily. It is an obvious copy of Dropbox -- the original Dropbox before the Great Reorganization -- which is exactly what I want. Initial experiments all are positive, including modifying a file on one device and seeing it sync to others, and moving the entire repo to an external drive, which worked seamlessly (Pause Sync, move repo, Resume Sync: doesn't get any easier than that).
Next step is to test multiple users. So far I am impressed, but there are a lot of subtle things around sync'ing that Dropbox historically did very well, so it will take some time to see if there are bugs in Sync (like getting on and off of airplanes with a laptop, modifying the same file on different devices, etc).
Hi Krutsch,
Wondered how the switch to Google Drive went? I'm so freaking out about this Dropbox 'upgrade' and have so far managed to postpone it. I've haven't found any positive talk on forums, so have been looking into how the file sync works with google drive and also the pathways, as I have HTML links for email signatures etc that I will need to rework after the upgrade or move. So painful, I dread to think how much down time it will cause. I'm no tech head, and too small a design studio to employ one.
Cheers, Meghan
Did Dropbox stop pushing this change? I did not want it and kept deferring. Then in my admin had a message we will let you know when we are ready to upgrade you. Now that is totally gone.
I just want to make sure I do not wake up one morning and the change happened.
Same here, we kept deferring until we just gave up, but then shortly before the target date, we were postponed due to high demand. And..... have heard nothing back since. Which is good. This was an all around bad idea and I have absolutely no idea what bonehead thought it would be good to do a "free upgrade" that messed with the file hierarchy and throw a good number of paying businesses into chaos. I sincerely hope they have given up on this and realized just how stupid it was. I'm hoping someone got fired, and now those that are left are trying to figure out the next corrective move. That said, it would be nice if you could give paying customers a bit more insight into WTF is going on and more visibility into future development plans. This isn't a a consumer service we're paying for, we have an entire business relying on it, and there is a very significant amount of lost revenue and wasted resources that occur if something stupid like this is pulled.
