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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!

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Keeks
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

This features is important to me also. Not everybody is connected to fiber optics, not all your customers live in places with that kind of connections. That informations is vital when you are uploading, I have been uploading pictures and videos for 4 days now (my connections gives me 80k per second, a top of 6.5 gigs per day) and I don't have the minimum idea when it's going to finish. The blue bar is useless, it's just cosmetic, it depends on the number of files remaining but the problem is that the bigger files are the last uploaded (I like this behaibour) so it doesn't really matter if there is only one file remaining it could be the same size of 2000 of the previous files uploaded before, this could easily happen with pictures and videos. As you can read in this and previous posts it’s a vital feature. If you where having problems with people complaining because they don’t know what an estimated time is, well make it a turn on feature in preferences with a warning. Other option is to display size of the remaining files to be uploaded, with that info I can make an estimate.

Please focus in your main business i think is making the best syncing application with the best GUI and UX, other things are ok, but are not your main goal, and if I am wrong with your goal please let me know, I may be in the wrong place.
 
Just one more thing, I cannot avoid compare Dropbox to Boeing, you want to charge extra for premium features when they should be included. 

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