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Opting out of cloud storage?
I've been a Dropbox user for about 10 years. Today, I was greeted with a demand from my Dropbox client to move all of my Dropbox synced folders from ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage. I've done...
Hey sfsdfd, thanks for taking the time to provide additional info on your query.
Allow me to clarify that even if you update your Dropbox application to Dropbox for macOS on File Provider, you'll still have the option to have your files available offline.
Even if you don't make the choice to initially sync them as available offline, you can still manually do so afterwards, with a simple right-click choice.
The usability of the app remains the same, with the added option to switch your files to online-only, to save up hard drive space.
However, we do appreciate your feedback on this and I'll make sure to pass it along to our team.
Let us know if you have any other questions.
This answer is completely useless and unresponsive to our comments.
You're suggesting that we have the option of designating files as offline "even if they don't start as available offline by default." This option requires us to police all of our files to designate them as "available offline."
Every time we create a file or folder, we have to go to Dropbox to ensure that the file or folder is marked "available offline."
Every time an application automatically creates a file or folder, we have to go to Dropbox to ensure that the file or folder is marked "available offline."
Every time we copy or move a file or folder from one place to another, we have to go to Dropbox to ensure that the new or moved file or folder is marked "available offline."
In other words, we have to be hypervigilant about marking our data as "available offline." The consequence of failing to do so is that our data doesn't live on our devices - only a mirage of the data. If the device is offline, our data isn't available. If an error occurs with Dropbox, our data isn't available. If we terminate our Dropbox service, our data - the data that we thought was living on our devices - is probably lost forever. Etc.
This is absolutely unacceptable and an appalling mismanagement of user data. I have abandoned Dropbox as a result, and your response only reinforces the correctness of that decision.
Yea, same here. I also stopped using Dropbox for this reason.
