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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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For the last 10 years or so I'm fairly certain when I added a file to my dropbox folder I could check to see how long it would take to upload. It would give me an estimate and show the current upload speed.
Now I can only see the upload speed? I often need to give my clients an ETA on when large files will be done uploading. I'm not sure where this feature has gone. My friends older MBP on older OSX still has this feature.
I'm on OSX Mojave 10.14.2 and a top of the line garbage pile 2018 MBP.
Why would remove the time estimate on syncs on the dropbox app? It's made things incredibly more inconvenient in my job.
I just got a new computer and switched my main Dropbox from Mac OSX to Windows 10. And now I also can't see how long it will take to finish uploading my files. I don't even have a dropbox icon in the OS anymore. How do Windows users get a sense of how long their upoloads will take to complete?
Dear Community,
until recently, my upload was always in minutes / seconds indicating how long the upload still takes. Since today I see that the upload is shown in KB / Sec.
Does anyone know how I change that back to min / sec?
Thanks!
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hope this helped to clarify matters - I am having the same problem. I am trying to get files to a client and I cant even see the transfer speed. All it says is "syncing 3 files". I have no idea if I have a fast or slow upload speed. This is very frustrating and is killing my workflow. Dropbox, please fix this. Why on earth would it be removed?
Are you going to fix this? I sometimes upload files that take hours or even days to upload, and I really want a time estimate!
Just by looking at the amount of complains in this thread it is easy to tell they screwed big time.
It's a shame, already starting to look for an alternative provider and I bet they'll lose many customers just for removing a tiny yet crucial feature (and not providing any kind of technical justification).
Dear Dropbox, why this qestion marked as solved if its still not solved?
The reason this is marked as solved is bacsue this is a feature not a bug.
The Project Manager on this feature should be reassigned or let go, and the Dropbox team needs to own their mistake and put the time remaining indicator back.
It is ridiculous it has not already been rolled back.
Again, see my comment about hubris, and lack of humility.Incredibly arrogant behavior by Dropbox
