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none22's avatar
none22
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

time left in sync gone again

I know there is an older (2019) post about this, but the time left to sync seems to have disappeared again. any idea why this has disappeared again. Now when I hover over the icon, it just shows 'upd...
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daveoneill's avatar
daveoneill
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Just hear to second this, (Mac silicon), vital feature to me and it's gone.

Korrofilms's avatar
Korrofilms
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

They removed this crucial feature back in 2019 and, after a lot of complaints, reinstated it. Now it seems it's been removed again, but I can't find many posts on here mentioning it, apart from this one. DropBox NEED to reinstate this feature asap, as having zero idea how long your upload has left is beyond frustrating.

  • none22's avatar
    none22
    Helpful | Level 7
    2 years ago

    yes - and though a previous message said they were aware of the problem, there has still been no fix.

     

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      2 years ago

      Hey none22, I can see that two of my colleagues have offered to send you an email, in order to look into this issue further, but you never confirmed.

       

      Would you like us to do that?

      • none22's avatar
        none22
        Helpful | Level 7
        2 years ago

        this seems to be a systemic problem, so I don't see what giving you my email will do to solve the problem for me and other users who are having the same experience.

  • Korrofilms's avatar
    Korrofilms
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    OMG, I've found it!! Not sure why the DropBox Staff who commented above didn't bother offering this information, but I've just discovered that this upload progress time indicator has been moved, not removed! I always have my DropBox Finder widget (top menu bar on my Mac) set to show me 'Activity' and it is here that I used to see the time indicator at the bottom. This now shows a useless progress bar, hence why I (and others) had assumed DropBox had removed this feature. However, I happened to click over to the 'Sync History' tab, while a file was uploading, and there it is at the top! It shows the current file(s) uploading, with a size left and time left indicator beneath them. Happy for DropBox to forward their support staff's yearly bonus to my account for this one 😉

    • none22's avatar
      none22
      Helpful | Level 7
      2 years ago

      ? maybe that's what shows up on a mac, but on a pc in sync history you get the number of mgb out of the total mgb that have been uploaded so far, but no time.  so you have to just guess how long the remaining mgb would take to upload. so at least for pc users, the function is still missing

      • dtang7d's avatar
        dtang7d
        New member | Level 2
        2 years ago

        @Korrofilms This is helpful but I am also on Mac and experiencing what @none22 says; there is size and remaining, but no time remaining.

         

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