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Time Left in Sync has been removed from the desktop app
The dropbox menu bar app has stopped showing the time left in the current sync in the bottom of the window. It shows a seemingly irrelevant progress bar but even hovering over that does not tell me t...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorSure.
Well, can you share how to solve it please?
- JayAs an update to this thread, I've received confirmation that the 'time left' prompt has been removed from the Dropbox desktop application.We do appreciate the feedback that we have received so far, and would like to let you know that our developers are being made aware of your comments.
i have the same issue... the 'time remaining' is missing from my dropdown too. it used to appear when you click on the dropbox icon in the menu bar. it was at the bottom of the dropdown window. not there anymore! please put it back! i also have clients that i need to inform when their download will be ready.
- Same problem here. Please bring it back, it's extremely important to know that information!
- Yes, your dev team didn't remove the time estimate on purpose, did they? Hope you're not following in Apple's footsteps to remove the time estimate for their battery life. One of the main reasons I use Dropbox instead of Google Drive is because of the time estimate, so please don't take that away, otherwise, I might have to find an alternative solution.
I'm also having this problem. It just shows the connection speed, whereas it used to display the time remaining. Extremely inconvenient and I'd appreciate some sort of update on when this will be fixed.
Please advise on this as its becoming very frustrating to use your service now... Ive paid for Plus and feel we deserve better service from the usually great dropbox. We need a solution after this specific feature being removed. As it stands I will have to look for an alternative unless a fix is given immediately. Please advise as there are many users waiting. Thank you.
Hello there,
Can you please confirm whether the feature has been intentionally removed by the Dropbox Team or not?
It's desappearance makes it apparent how much of an essential feature this is in the workflow of every professional I know who uses your service.
What's going on? If this hopefully wasn't intentional, do you have any leads?
ThanksI am on Mac os Mojave 10.14.3
and
on previous operating system at home. Issue on both machines.
kinda poor that 2 weeks have gone by since this moderator post with multiple new complaints each day and still no official reply or fix for the issue! come on guys, please respond? might be cancelling my paid subscription at this rate andf looking elsewhere...
Whats going on with this issue? Why has no one from dropbox followed this up?
I am also having this issue on both OSX 10.13.6 & OSX 10.12.6 across 3 different macs (dropbox version 69.4.102)
I am uplaoding and downloading large video files (20GB+) and having an estimated time left is absolutely critical.
My clients are getting frustrated that I cannot give them an estimate, Im having to do rough math myself to figure it out.
Please fix or re-add this feature as without it I will no longer be able to use dropbox.
- It seems and feels that we're abandoned to ourselves... :/ Very frustrating if you rely on dropbox for work on a daily basis
We tried removing the current version of dropbox and installing an older version, but dropbox sneaks in the latest version onto you so you can't win. We are paying a hefty subscription price for this service so bloody fix it and bring back the time left option!!!!
+1 to wanting this feature back, although it sometimes varied greatly, I relied on it for a number of reasons. Please bring the time estimation feature back.
Yes please have this fix immediately. This is a deal breaker
- Iām just curious as to what advantage removing such a feature would be?
This is a blocker for me. I need to have this feature, what is going on? Did they QA this?
Perhaps they are modelling after Apple: Apple removes the ātime remainingā battery estimate in new macOS update https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/13939278/apple-macos-sierra-new-macbook-pros-battery-life
Removing this feature is ridiculous! I relied on the upload ETA to know roughly when to tell my clients their files would be ready. Please reinstate this features ASAP!
This is stupid! Why remove this feature? Put it back dummies!
Yeah the decision to remove this feature is just plain dumb. Please bring it back ASAP.
Inexplicably dumb! And why is this marked as solved??? This is not solved!
There is a shocking level of hubris imnplicit in this decsion by DropBox. Humilty is no where to be seen, and when a company loses the perpective one gets from embracing humility, a company is on the path towards obscurity.
This is a feature that made me to decide to pay for the dropbox upgrade - every month - and use dropbox to send files to clients; then being able to give a client a rough estimate of when their files will arrive. My upload speeds are still in the dark ages at 1.6kbps, so I really need this feature. If a feature I pay for has been removed I would hope Dropbox would inform its users, not have us fumble around in the dark trying to figure out why the feature is not showing. This was literally the best feature Dropbox had. Please reinstate this feature asap.
