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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clientreleases
2 years agoDropbox Staff
Stable Build 168.4.4802
Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes including the following:
Fixes in this update:
Fixed an issue that prevented users from ...
detailgetreu
2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I am currently very disappointed with Dropbox and especially with this update.
I work on a Mac Studio Ultra (M1) and a Macbook Pro 14" 2023 (M2).
Actually, I would like to know that my files are safe in the cloud and also synchronize my customer projects on the desktop and notebook. I've bought the notebook 14 days ago and haven't even been able to use it productively yet because both computers are constantly indexing and synchronizing to death.
Installing the same stable version of the Dropbox software on both computers was a Herculean task. Why does the Client Builds and ChangeLogs page have to be hidden so deep in the forum? As a decent software provider, you should already offer your customers a visible link to the changelog and previous software versions on the main download page.
Regardless of this, it is not possible to open online files. Even syncing and downloading simple files takes forever if it works at all.
Bizarrely, the new folder structure has been created in Library/CloudStorage on the M1-Mac Studio. This did not happen on the M2 notebook and cannot be adjusted. For this purpose, both folders in Users/Dropbox and Users/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox were kept on the Mac Studio. Some file edits therefore went completely in the nexus. Also, many thanks to the Dropbox team for the 700 GB of garbage on my hard drive.
I've been a paying Dropbox customer for years and in the next few days I'll be canceling my entire subscription, having my credit card payment taken back due to poor performance and moving to GoogleCloud.
Unfortunately, Dropbox has not been a productive solution for several months.
You should be ashamed of putting such a poor product on the market and taking money from users who trusted you for it.
A disappointed customer.
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