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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
I’m not interested in a progress bar, bring the numerical estimate back. I don’t want to eyeball and calculate the remaining times based on proportions or percentages, I want to see an approximated number until my Dropbox folder is up to date, as we did before.
There are other options that offer the "time remaining" feature plus twice as much storage plus opt-out on auto-update plus less expensive (for individual users on the 1 TB plan like me not sure about the other plans). I started migrating my files to a new service when the "remove from all devices" prompt started popping up for deletions...glad I did, given this latest dev,
PLEASE bring back the time estimate feature... it's SO FRUSTRATING not to have ANY idea how much has uploaded or how much is left! I don't even care if it's not always a precise estimate, but I need to know the difference between 5 minutes and an hour....
@marinacoser @graystate Hi, try Sync: 2 TB plus time remaining and other goodies for less money. I don't collaborate via the cloud, so can't speak to the sharing features beyond that they exist. Hope that helps!
@jbaughmanHi, try Sync: 2 TB plus time remaining and other goodies for less money. I don't collaborate via the cloud, so can't speak to the sharing features beyond that they exist. Hope that helps!
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