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Dropbox is laughably slow. Arguably the worst file-sharing client.
What year is it? Did the Internet just come out? Are we still in the infancy of sharing files quickly and efficiently? Dropbox takes (literally) 21 hours to upload 7 small movie clips to a shared fol...
1) Because you've misunderstood what Dropbox is - it is NOT a 'cloud based file sharing service'. It is a syncing program. It is designed, and intended, to sync things between devices. If you were baffled by that then you should really have read what you were signing up to first
2) the limit is 10,000 files or 1gb of data for zips.
3) How would you expect it to work - you delete/move something out of a shared folder to a random location on your drive what is Dropbox meant to do? How should it replicate that change to another users computer?
Thankfully nobody forces you to use Dropbox wsfilms - and after all, if you hate it that much you could always just delete your account and then nobody could share with you? Personally I wont use Google drive as I dont want them reading into my files to create adverts based on it or selling that data to other companies.
Mark
Super User II
Super User II1) Because you've misunderstood what Dropbox is - it is NOT a 'cloud based file sharing service'. It is a syncing program. It is designed, and intended, to sync things between devices. If you were baffled by that then you should really have read what you were signing up to first
2) the limit is 10,000 files or 1gb of data for zips.
3) How would you expect it to work - you delete/move something out of a shared folder to a random location on your drive what is Dropbox meant to do? How should it replicate that change to another users computer?
Thankfully nobody forces you to use Dropbox wsfilms - and after all, if you hate it that much you could always just delete your account and then nobody could share with you? Personally I wont use Google drive as I dont want them reading into my files to create adverts based on it or selling that data to other companies.
I have used dropbox, google drive, onedrive and years ago livedrive. I've had no issues with any. The only issues I have is that every time I get placed with another customer is: we use X for filesharing sot I had to constantly switch. I solved this with the simpeles solution ever and bought a NAS. I do have all accounts active just in case. I do hate the fact that when I install dropbox that the folder must name 'Dropbox' and that this directory MAY NOT already exist. HOW ABOUT AFTER A CRASH???? I don't want dropbox to start the sync all over again just because i point it to an existing folder I happened to name DropBox => look for the capital B and dropbox complained already.
WHY THE **bleep** DO YOU ALL CARE ABOUT THE CASE SENSITIVITY?? ARE WE STILL IN THE 1980's???? o is it because Java developers are TOO **bleep**ING LAZY to write a single case insensitive string comparer???? oh no wait... they all belilve THEY are the tru inventors of the wheel over and over and over and over and over and over ... Do I have to continue that tis is a community issue justbecause THEY think they have an "academic level programming language"
