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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!

harborlighthous's avatar
harborlighthous
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Obviously the Project Manager and their team made this decsion. This is what happens with late stage companies. They need to figure out things to do so they can justify their yearly RSU grants, and CIP bonuses.

What needs to be done is the team needs to lose their PM, and they need to reinstate the feature, and then they need to sit down with SLT and maybe even ELT and and do a debrief and figure out how they can compensate their staff on metrics not associated with 'product enhacments' and then they need to rewrite their employee handbook and redo their core values and make sure humilty is #1

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ElJayBronxNY
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Harbor...what I am missing from your answer is anything that indicates a priority for enhancing the user experience. 

I beg engineering or management to communicate back with us here and say more than the feature was removed. It should be either "oops...sorry! We didn't know it was that important to so many people" or "Here's the reason we found it necessary (or advisable) to remove this feature". 

Jay

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