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I have a question about the sharing approvals. Can you help?
I have been a Dropbox user for many years and have shared folders many times during that period. It used to be that when I shared a folder the recipient would recieve an email, click on the link and...
After over a month at dealing with people at Dropbox about this I learned that this is part of their new Two-Step security which is a total pain in the butt. This was the stupidest solution to a possible problem that they could have come up with. I suggested a few alternatives. First, make the person sharing use two-step authentication to log-into the Dropbox site. They could use a third party app such as Authenticator which is what many of the crypto-currency exchanges use. Or better yet, AFTER the person sharing clicks the "share" button on dropbox.com the emails to the recipients are suspended. Dropbox then sends a confiming email to the sender asking: Did you share your folder, ______, with ______, _____, etc." The sharer clicks on the link to authorize the share and then the email invitations are sent to the recipients. That way the recipients are not bothered. This new system sucks. I shared a folder with 10 people and then went to the airport. While I was traveling they all needed to view the folder contents but could not do so until I landed and got the confirming messges so no work got done--great customer centric security system, Dropbox.
Thank you for that information. Really appreciate it! I LOVE Dropbox. Really do. But I'm guessing this won't change until enough people complain to Dropbox.
I like Dropbox a lot, too and use it often. This "solution" reminded me of the adage that a camel was a horse put together by a committee. Dropbox's idea was correct but the solution is wrong. Hopefully they will come up with a simpler solution, two of which I proposed. I happen to like the idea of a confirming email being sent to me by Dropbox before sending the invitations. I use Authenticator but it is a bit too technology "heavy" for a mundane issue such as sharing files. If it involves money, finances, personal information, etc. then Authenticator is fine.
