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mcfinney
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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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 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! 
jakeratner's avatar
jakeratner
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

It appears that the progress estimate when uloading/syncing on the desktop version of Dropbox has disappered! I'm running Mojave 10.14.2 on an iMac, and when previosuly uploading files/syncing with Dropbox, it used to say "Syncing (23 min remaiing)." Now it just reads "Syncing" with no time status. Where did it go?! Bring it back Dropbox!

  • whiskersland's avatar
    whiskersland
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    Mine is back as of 27th May 2019 on Mac, using 'Plus'.

    • graystate's avatar
      graystate
      Helpful | Level 7
      7 years ago

      Oh wonderful.

      Dropbox just put us through months of annoyance by removing the most important feature and making us fight to get it back and now as a reward they're upping the price by 60%

      "Dropbox Plus just got an upgrade. And a new price—starting on July 19, 2019, Dropbox Plus will be AU$16.99 a month (plus any applicable taxes)...

      ...This is all for just AU$6.00 more a month. "

      Thanks a [profanity removed by moderation according to the Community Guidelines] HEAP Dropbox!

      • Daphne's avatar
        Daphne
        Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
        7 years ago
         
        We’re constantly working to offer the best features that will meet your needs. The Dropbox Plus plan will get some new features which you can check out in more detail from here.
         
        I understand that you are not satisfied with the increase in price, but I’d like to mention that you can keep your current pricing by changing to an annual billing cycle.
         
        If you have any other questions please let me know - Thanks!

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