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mcfinney's avatar
mcfinney
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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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...
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  • Emma's avatar
    Emma
    7 years ago
    LuisA1 wrote:
    Hi everyone,
     
    I’m a member of the Dropbox desktop application team.
     
    First off, I’d like to thank you all for your feedback on this. 
     
    Earlier this year, we removed the time to sync estimate from the Dropbox menu and replaced it with a progress bar as we believed it would be a better measure of true progress of your files syncing, rather than the time to sync estimates.
     
    That said - we’ve heard you! We have decided to bring back the time to sync estimate in an upcoming build of the Dropbox desktop application!
     
    Once this build is released, you should automatically see the time to sync estimate again. We will also update you here as soon as the version with the time estimate is available. 
     
    We truly appreciate all of your feedback, it’s very important to us to make Dropbox work for our users. Thank you! 

    Hi all, 

    I've checked with the team and this has been released to the current stable version v73. 

    It is available now for download, but your devices should also automatically be updated to this version soon.

    Thanks once again for your patience and feedback!

LuisA1's avatar
LuisA1
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
7 years ago
Hi everyone,
 
I’m a member of the Dropbox desktop application team.
 
First off, I’d like to thank you all for your feedback on this. 
 
Earlier this year, we removed the time to sync estimate from the Dropbox menu and replaced it with a progress bar as we believed it would be a better measure of true progress of your files syncing, rather than the time to sync estimates.
 
That said - we’ve heard you! We have decided to bring back the time to sync estimate in an upcoming build of the Dropbox desktop application!
 
Once this build is released, you should automatically see the time to sync estimate again. We will also update you here as soon as the version with the time estimate is available. 
 
We truly appreciate all of your feedback, it’s very important to us to make Dropbox work for our users. Thank you! 
Alex_Basis_HH's avatar
Alex_Basis_HH
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Dear Community,

until recently, my upload was always in minutes / seconds indicating how long the upload still takes. Since today I see that the upload is shown in KB / Sec.

Does anyone know how I change that back to min / sec?

Thanks!

  • Daphne's avatar
    Daphne
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    7 years ago
    Hey there, Alex_Basis_HH.
     
    Thanks for reaching out to us with your query! 
     
    Unfortunately, the feature showing the time estimate left for syncing your files was removed in a recent update to the Dropbox desktop app. Currently there isn’t option within the app to change the display to show the time left for syncing.
     
    We have received a lot of feedback about this on the thread here, and I’d be more than happy to pass along your comments also to our dev team as we always value constructive feedback.
     
    Hope this helped to clarify matters - Have a wonderful weekend ahead!
  • Daphne's avatar
    Daphne
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    7 years ago
     
    I’ve merged your thread here as there was a recent update regarding your initial query. Please check the solution here, you will be able to follow this space easier now for future updates!
     
    Thanks!

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