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Turn Auto Play off for audio Files
Please add a way to stop audio files from playing instantly, as soon as you open them. On the Dropbox app, using an iPhone, the minute you open the file it starts playing. If you have previously played that audio file and paused it half way through, you can't stop it from playing in time to take it back to the start. We use Dropbox for our choir and keep our backing tracks and sheet music together. During a performance we need to make sure all the files have been returned to the start and we can't have them ready to go to press play.
Clip webpages and notes to Dropbox
It would be a nice feature to have to be able to clip webpages, articles and notes to a designated folder in my dropbox account. Evernote is a good clipping tool, but its storage and recall functions are limited. It would be nice to clip a whole web page, with images, as well as a just the basics, even if it is a text file.
Feature Request: Enable Bills, Receipts, Documents to be Automatically Stored in Dropbox
Imagine if Dropbox created a feature whereby a user could instruct Dropbox to automatically download bills, receipts, or certain other documents from a {SOURCE} when any designated {SOURCE} generates a new bill, receipt, or other allowed document type. WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED? Here's how this feature might work: User asks Dropbox to provision "Automatic Download Feature" for {LIST_OF_DOCUMENT_TYPES} from {SOURCE_X}. Example sources: banks, credit unions, brokerage accounts, insurance companies, utilities, Amazon.com & other retailers, credit card providers, mortgage companies, county tax authorities, payroll providers, cellular phone providers, cable TV providers, FasTrak, PayPal, Stripe, et al, and et cetera. If {SOURCE_X} is a "new" relationship, Dropbox establishes contractual, business, and technical relationships with the source provider. Dropbox & {SOURCE_X} enable user to grant appropriate permissions (e.g., authorization and access credentials), configure target Dropbox folders, et cetera. Whenever {SOURCE_X} generates a new instance of a supported document type for User, a copy is automatically sent to Dropbox (pushed by {SOURCE} or pulled by Dropbox) and filed in the user's designated DB folder(s). Users bask on the beach, drinking Mai-Tais, comforted by the knowledge that they have secure archives and are saving a significant amount of time. (Joyful rounds of Kumbya are optional.) IS THIS POSSIBLE? YES! FileThis, a very well-intentioned company, used to offer this service. UNLIKE DROPBOX, I suspect (and transparently admit I do not know) FileThis could not acquire a sufficient number of paying customers for the idea to be worth their while. This issue is unlikely to be a problem for Dropbox. Please help us, Obi-Box, you are our only hope! Thank you for considering this request.
Safeguard data on sudden drive-failure to avoid accidental deletions
The following issue cannot get solved by using any setting inside Dropbox or by external precautions – such as alerts on OS-level. Staff should find a support ticket on the problem I describe. A few months ago, we ran into a sudden mass deletion of all Dropbox data. It turned out that the reason was trivial – and that the same could happen again any day. An M2 SSD drive screwed into a Laptop didn’t sit perfectly tight in its slot and its pins had lost contact. This drive was used for Dropbox (local storage). Dropbox interpreted this loss of contact with the drive as full deletion and silently nuked all files we store on Dropbox (in Cloud + all attached machines). Technically, it's the same data loss you'll experience when you unplug an external drive with Dropbox running while the machine on. As we work with large files, we run Dropbox in a fashion that leaves all data on local machines and cloud-syncs it. Whenever a drive fails, it will therefore erase all Dropbox data. Rollbacks via Dropbox may help recover data. Yet, nothing can protect our Dropbox volume (hundreds of GB) from getting cleared in the first place. Any app or website that references data stored on Dropbox obviously would get affected by full data removal. This could cause substantial initial damage (blank pages, due to missing data) and likely lots of clean-up-work (once data got recovered). We already considered options to sniff out unexpected directory write operations – here's a Microsoft tool one may use on Windows. Such a tool, however, even when perfectly configured (shuts down local Dropbox when self-destruction is detected) would only rescue Dropbox data on local machines. Any 3rd party references to Dropbox data would still break – as they plug into Dropbox Cloud storage, which still gets nuked when a drive suddenly dies or disconnects. We would therefore like to see a mechanism for paid Dropbox tiers that kicks in, as soon as a computer logged into Dropbox issues the deletion of the full Dropbox volume. Dropbox should stop executing this command on its cloud instance and all drives machines it still can access and ask Admins (via E-Mail / Push Message), how it should proceed: A computer logged into this acount has requested to delete all files on Dropbox. The name of this machine is [“human-readable Computer Name”], Would you like to proceed? If yes, please enter your Dropbox Password. ⚠ This message may also get caused by a hardware error on the computer in question. As long as you do not confirm by entering your Dropbox password, no data will be deleted in the cloud or on connected computers. Enter password to delete all Dropbox data | Cancel delete operation Please consider this addition. It requires practically no GUI and would not introduce workflow changes. Yet, this little change would bring Dropbox data integrity to the next level.Dropbox Replay and Avid Media Composer
It is essential to make Dropbox Replay compatible with Avid Media Composer Adobe Premiere Pro is very useful for small and medium productions. DaVinci resolve is mainly used for color grading. Sometimes in editing. But when it comes to large productions, involving multiple collaborations such as VFX and compositing houses, using softwares like Nuke or Silhouette, we enter a different league. They all, without exception, use the MXF file format. So far, MC is the only software that does not use linked files. Everything is imported into a specific folder, transcoded into MXF, separated from the sources, which makes it the most stable system in the world. A solid rock. For all these reasons, I strongly suggest that Dropbox Replay include Avid Media Composer in the list of compatible editing softwares. Thank you, guys! Martin Julien - Senior Post Production Editor