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mcfinney
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
- 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!
ripchord
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
How is this marked 'solved' when it is obviously not?
Saying you'll do something, someday, does not equate to a problem being solved.
For example, I'm uploading a rendered video today and my client wants to know when he can expect it. That's a problem. The solution would be for me to look on the system tray and see the time left for the upload to complete, and then, in turn, relay that information to my client. Problem solved.
So since I cannot do that - the DB problem is not solved.
ripchord
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
BTW - for those of you that may think me harsh, I went from knowing (fairly accurately) when I could give a client a download link... to not having any idea when an upload would finish because I don't even have the progress bar that replaced the estimated completion time.
I have nothing but a bitrate (and no, I'm not going to calculate the file size and bitrate and get the estimated upload time manually - THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE APP USED TO DO!)
- furtonb7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Seriously, what [profanity removed according to the Community Guidelines] is going on? How on earth is the "support" staff capable of writing ,,if this detail is important to you, go to the website..." - have you ever used your product, that people are using here?
It is not a solution and never will be! The point of the desktop application is the semi-replacement of servers, to store the files locally and have your team members/cooperators work with it, without having the need to upload hunderds of files then download it again, move it to the folder, repeat. I am dead serious, this is not a matter of uploading 1 file or folder to the client, it is a matter of everyday pain, you know there are people working with serious amount of data, which needs to be synced back and forth to track changes and not to worry about it. The effort that went into "redesigning" the desktop UI is worth nothing - starred/relevant/etc. tab is never used, let me rephrase, I know no one that uses it, why would you, when the integrated folder can be tagged/moved to favourites/etc. And the remaining time is not the only thing that got removed, also the ability to check what had been uploaded recently - quite some time ago I could scroll down and see every file listed, now a LOT of things are missing.
Could you do us a favour and stop making this application worse with every release? It doesn't need these bells and whistles that you clogged it with, it needs to tell me what it has synced, or if it still syncing, HOW LONG WILL THAT TAKE. That is exactly one detail, nothing less, nothing more to care about.
There had been almost 20 pages of complaints from your paying customers, I guess a lot of us are having annual subscriptions, so please hurry up with the solution, no one wants do deal with this, don't make your app more important than it should be. For all the developers working on this, I have all the empathy, I'm not even sure if the bureaucratic part of the company even relayed the message properly, but I have limited patience. It has been months, several long nights because of not knowing when syncing will be finished, for all the responsible people all I could say is [profanity removed according to the Community Guidelines]. You do not listen, do not respond in an acceptable way, all Jane for instance could say is tech support [profanity removed according to the Community Guidelines], "blah blah blah, thank you for the inquiry, blah blah blah", which is so tiring to read after all this. I get that cancelling my subscription after this year's end for me doesn't mean [profanity removed according to the Community Guidelines] to you, but this very fact proves, that it is the best decision to make.
Your job is to remain absolutely unnoticed - I'm spending my workdays getting annoyed multiple times by the removal of this feature, it had been said nicely, it had been said more vigorously, no one blinked an eye, no letter of apology came with the title "sorry we, that we [profanity removed according to the Community Guidelines] you" from the responsible people, everyone is hiding behind this blue logoed corporate image, I hope you sleep well, while I'm staying awake to text my colleagues "it's up, you can continue your part".
- kerstinh7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Calculating the time via the bitrate won't even work if you don't know how long it has been uploading. This is ridiculous.
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