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With a 300k File Limit - Does Dropbox Really Provide Business Solutions?
For many many years, I've been a Dropbox Pro member. During this time, they decided at some point, that 300,000 files is the maximum they will support. Now, I know what you are thinking. The ar...
I did not accept this as a solution (now fixed). It doesn't solve anything and is factually incorrect. At the time of your reply and this post, there is a baked in hard-limit in Dropbox that makes it unusable - and your support team refused to provide support to anyone with over 300K files. Nothing in your response you marked as the "answer" addresses this in any way shape or form. Wishing you had the answer isn't the same as providing one.
The right answer was moving to Google Drive and getting an actual business grade cloud based file sync solution in place.
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to provide an update.
Ever since we moved to Google Drive (and started using their Drive File Stream service) we have flourished. I've never had to think twice about the software - this is the way it should be.
Our company has since doubled in size, and our file count and file size has increased drastically. We now have 30+ users working over File Stream daily for the last 2 years and we have not had a single issue. Memory use is tiny, and our file usage is massive.
I now consider Google Drive an essential part of our business. We share massive files with clients every week, coordinate on 100+ page proposals and submissions, and have no issues with storage. And not to mention all the control it provides us with.
File Stream is unique, it is a cloud drive solution and we have several computers using traditional Google Drive, and they also have had no issues. They primarily are for backup. But now that our drive size is greater than 1TB - File Stream is the only way some of our team can access the entire folder (it adds a virtual drive that downloads files as you access them). We've also since migrated 2 smaller businesses to our Google Drive.
The cost is negligible. We pay I think $5 per user. Their support has been fantastic. And I will never go back to the demoralizing and degrading experience I went through trying to use Dropbox for our business. I'm no longer allowing companies to gaslight me on their faulty services. A file service really needs to be a set-and-forget solution and I no longer find it acceptable to pay a company for 3 day response times with poor comprehension and no incentive in resolving issues.
Dropbox simply is incapable of providing a business grade solution both at the technology level and their support level. Their technology is too far behind and the team is too disillusioned for them to be able to catch up. Do yourself a favor and try other solutions - Dropbox is now the back of the pack and provides the lowest quality experience of them all. I'm thankful everyday I stopped using this service.
Thank you
I just wanted to provide an update.
Ever since we moved to Google Drive (and started using their Drive File Stream service) we have flourished. I've never had to think twice about the software - this is the way it should be.
Our company has since doubled in size, and our file count and file size has increased drastically. We now have 30+ users working over File Stream daily for the last 2 years and we have not had a single issue. Memory use is tiny, and our file usage is massive.
I now consider Google Drive an essential part of our business. We share massive files with clients every week, coordinate on 100+ page proposals and submissions, and have no issues with storage. And not to mention all the control it provides us with.
File Stream is unique, it is a cloud drive solution and we have several computers using traditional Google Drive, and they also have had no issues. They primarily are for backup. But now that our drive size is greater than 1TB - File Stream is the only way some of our team can access the entire folder (it adds a virtual drive that downloads files as you access them). We've also since migrated 2 smaller businesses to our Google Drive.
The cost is negligible. We pay I think $5 per user. Their support has been fantastic. And I will never go back to the demoralizing and degrading experience I went through trying to use Dropbox for our business. I'm no longer allowing companies to gaslight me on their faulty services. A file service really needs to be a set-and-forget solution and I no longer find it acceptable to pay a company for 3 day response times with poor comprehension and no incentive in resolving issues.
Dropbox simply is incapable of providing a business grade solution both at the technology level and their support level. Their technology is too far behind and the team is too disillusioned for them to be able to catch up. Do yourself a favor and try other solutions - Dropbox is now the back of the pack and provides the lowest quality experience of them all. I'm thankful everyday I stopped using this service.
Thank you
Hey Dropbox, here's an easy solution : just add a "zip this folder" button on the web UI. Just remember to have it work, unlike the move files button (which fail when there's more than a typical grandma's folder typical item count in it).
If that's too much to manage, you could remove some of the other new junk such as the desktop app (who asked for that ?!).
I even emailed the new COO, but she never bothered to even respond to an email.
Our Dropbox has 111 users now and we are desperate for an alternative. I see a lot of comments about the pros and cons of Google Drive. Anyone can recommend something that is worth the switch?
Also decided to leave Dropbox as they don't seem to care about power users anymore. I'd suggest to have a look at NextCloud, it seems it's now quite easy to setup, and so you're done with all this pricing/accounts/lockin headache.
- there is no support on googled rive and all the big ones, forget it. I tried pcloud for a year, you can even call them, probably the best service so far, plus pretty good pricing. but it was a bit buggy once in a while, probably got better by now, not sure why I didn't like it tbh. you can even transfer your whole whatever cloud in the background to theirs. the integration of Dropbox with android or OSX is still the best though, it's a shame they're ignoring those few tweaks and especially power users. maybe you shouldn't email them, try all social networks, linking / mentioning them in every way you can...good luck with your quest :)
