Time Left in sync has been removed from the Dropbox desktop app

This is one of the main reasons why I loved Dropbox, now it's gone. I really hope they put it back. I also canceled my subscription because of this.

Yup agreed pathetic. Will be looking for an alternative option if this feature is gone. It also seems to be uploading waaaaaay slower then last version.

Hi, LuisA1.

Thank you for your reply. It's good news to people on Dropbox that this feature is coming back, but I want to point out that your visit to this issue was the FIRST TIME since March 29 that an employee of Dropbox bothered to come here and talk to us. 

As a result, several of us, including me, have signed on with a competing service (Sync) that offers more space for the same money and has a time-to-sync notification. 

In addition to writing here, we have tried to deal with tech support and beg them to bring this issue to your team. Their explanations for the change were not satisfactory and they have little empowerment to do anything real to help us. 

Feel free to reach out again to discuss this breach of trust and appropriate customer service that has caused many to jump ship. 

While at the moment I remain a member of Dropbox as well, my intention is to transition to Sync over a short while. This would NOT HAVE HAPPENED if your team had responded sooner to this. 

 Totaly agree ElJayBronxNY! Months, hundreds of comments and 9,000 views of this thread - not to mentinoed the hours each of us spent to the online chats reps - later, we *finally* get a response to an insane issue that should never have been an issue at all. I think it all begs the questions that we'd all love to know, why on earth would the application team remove the feature that many rely upon in the first instance? Still giving  sync a trial anyway as this whole thing has made me lose confidence in db.

Well I'm stunned. On the one hand, yes it's great that Dropbox actually seemed to have listened, it's coming back and maybe I'll get some sleep now, however, on the other hand, I can't believe this happened in the first place and that Dropbox have been so lax in dealing with the issue and the ridiculous amount of distressed people posting on this thread. The thanks we finally got for our feedback was nice, but an apology for the massive inconvenience this has caused so many users would have been nicer. I sincerely hope the genius who came up with the idea of removing it has been fired.

I agree with others that this was crazy for Dropbox developers to remove.  Knowing the actual time left syncing is CRUCIAL.  I don't think I ever have a client or colleague on the phone without saying "Dropbox says there's 22 minutes (or whatever time) left" to sync.  The bar is a nice addition but the time left is so important, especially to those of us who work remotely.  Maybe in the future ask users about key design features?  Hope the update is up as soon as possible!

I'd like my name added to the list that would like the 'time remaining' feature returned to Dropbox. I'm uploading a Red camera file to a VFX house right now and they've asked me how long it will take.... 'I've no idea' is the only answer I can give them.