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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
their own WEBSITE seems to think the feature is still available 😕 https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/sync-time
telling everyone that the feature they USED TO HAVE and STILL WANT has been removed deliberately is not a "solution". this solves no one's problem. stop linking back to it as though this closes the matter.
In the desktop app, when syncing files, it now only says "syncing", and does not give an estimated time remaining. This is a BIG issue if the feature is no longer available, as I need to know how long files will take to upload/download so I can inform my clients.
If I don't know how long it's going to take (which, to be honest, should be a STANDARD feature for any file storage application that allows you to upload/download), then I can't use Dropbox as a reliable app to share files with clients.
Eagerly awaiting your response.
David
+1 on this. I can't believe they would have removed such an obviously needed feature...even if it was only approximate. It made planning my schedule arouond dropbox upload times a lot more predictable.
There does seem to be a little blue bar that *might* be showing the upload progress of the file, but that's utterly worthless to me.
@DAVID M.1 and @BDoyle this feature has been removed... Verification from Dropbox can be seen in this "resolution". I see that it has been turned into a Feature Request.
I see. That frankly sucks. Apparently, they're fine with giving me an approximate time to complete a crappy web survey (see image), but not on my uploads. Got it.
Please add me to the list of people who want this "feature" back. It's a basic usage requirement in my workflow.
Wow. I find it a bit rich that a previously implemented feature (that we all pay a service subscription for) is removed without warning, and then added back as a "request".
Would be great to get a response from Dropbox as to WHY it was removed in the first place, when it was a feature the majority of paying customers relied upon? How can we give clients delivery time estimates without any actual time estimates?
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