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This is like vacuuming your house or office. Do you guys go without it for years on end? It's hard to believe this critical and essential feature does not exist. I currently have multiple folders that can be merged easily on windows, but not on Dropbox. One thing the Dropbox developers have to understand is that business accounts have larger amount of files on Dropbox than on their systems, and because of the painful speed of upload and download and the limitation of files that can be transferred at once (3000 files), it is not possible to do this on the desktop side. So there has to be a house cleaning tool that allows for maintenance and merging of duplicate folders and files. You can even find this on your phone these days. It is hard to imagine Dropbox for business customers do not have this option.
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Mark thanks for your reply, however I found your reply quite dismissive rather than useful and it seems like you didn't even read my post. :
1- Nobody is implying "electronic system deciding which file was worth keeping", not sure where you got that idea from? I'd assume any person would want to see what files are being overridden / removed. Just like when you copy a folder into another folder on windows, you have the ability to see each file and decide. As is the case of many duplicate file finder programs lie DupGuru, etc...
2- This will be a feature. Anybody who doesn't want is can simply not use it!
3- As mentioned in the post, with the treacherous upload/download speeds that Dropbox has to offer and the file size limitations, it is an impossible task to download 1TB of data every month or two and clean them up in windows and the upload them back. I am talking about folders that are not synced with desktop (obviously).
I would appreciate a response from Dropbox staff.
- Mark
Super User II
Personally I wouldn't want any electronic system deciding which file was worth keeping and which wasn't - especially when so many applications now require duplicates to work (iTunes/iPhoto etc. as some examples)
If you have one that works on a computer then simply run it on the Dropbox folder and its sorted.
