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Time Left in sync has been removed from the Dropbox 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 the time left to sync, which I have depended on to let clients know when files will be there. Hovering over only gives me the option to pause syncing. Was this feature removed or is this a bug in the latest update?
I'm on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6
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Well "Mr super user", your comment is irrelevant because that's NOT an acceptable solution to any of us paying users!! Until the "estimated time" indicator is returned, my team and I will continue to make lots of noise till a real person from Dropbox responds with an acceptable solution.
This is a really, very bad fetaure to remove. Why must companies whom we pay tonnes of money to monthly remove useful features? More incentive to move to different platforms for me.
Following this thread has been very entertaining. There are a LOT of angry users just like me!
I'm wondering if any of you Super Users can give us a hint as to why the feature was removed?
Thanks
From the Dropbox website:
"Dropbox helps your team with tools that bring everyone’s work together in one focused place. Access and share files, coordinate projects with co-workers, and communicate right alongside everyone’s work."
How are we expected to coordinate and communicate when such a vital piece of information is no longer availabe?
+1 to "i need this feature back"
of course it may not always be perfect but it helped a lot with exchanging data with others -- as many have stated here already.
Hello!
With the latest dropbox app update for Mac, there's no longer a progress bar to let you know how long a download or upload is going to take. This was incredibly helpful. Is there any way to enable it again?
The upload time remaining estimate has been removed or is missing-- this is a critical feature. Please bring it back.
Please bring this VERY USEFUL feature back. It wasn't perfectly accurate but it was worked well enough.
Looks like Dropbox took out sync time. Hoping they realize they screwed up. Actively looking for a Dropbox replacement because of this feature removal!
I think that dropbox is not going to return the "time" function, or they are not in a hurry to do it. Therefore, a possible temporary solution can be like this: download the latest version of Dropbox, where "time" function still aviable. Then install it, and somehow block Dropbox from autoupdate. But I still can't find easy way how to do it. Maybe somebody knows?
