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mcfinney
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
Solved

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 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! 
Keeks's avatar
Keeks
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Is there a date for the update? Also there is a problem with the upload speeds, they are slow and unreliable, if you upload a lot of files it becomes extremly slow at the end. I found that restarting the app speeds things up for a while. 

  • fcmiii's avatar
    fcmiii
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    For one glorious upload today, the time remaining feature was back. But everything since then has had it missing. Hopefully this means it's actively in the process of being fixed. Not holding my breath, though.

    • pepe1967's avatar
      pepe1967
      Helpful | Level 6
      7 years ago

      It's the 10th of May and I'm still waiting for this feature to be restored.

      I'm a freelance news camera operator trying to upload a 16GB rushes package for today's broadcasts and the media manager wants to know when they'll get the package... hey Dropbox what do I tell them????

      Dropbox, you're costing me my reputation & livelyhood, get this sorted now!!

      • lisaiannarino's avatar
        lisaiannarino
        Helpful | Level 5
        7 years ago

        Seems like now theres not even a progress bar.... just says "syncing...."

        needs to be fixed already.....

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