Dropbox Professional

Re:Dropbox Professional by dabernathy89 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:22PM (#15494008)

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years?

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

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Re:Dropbox Professional by npkarnik on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:30PM (#15494087)

I don't work at Dropbox, but I believe it's ignored by design. Fewer users would upgrade their storage to the paid plans.

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Re:Dropbox Professional by dabernathy89 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:54PM (#15494306)

I hadn't even considered that TBH.

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Re:Dropbox Professional by Nition on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:06PM (#15494408)

Similarly: "Stop auto-inheriting new folders when using selective sync"[1]

Another many-page thread from 2014.

It's a big problem everywhere, but especially in business settings where there's often tons of data and anyone adding a new folder to Dropbox ends up syncing that new folder to everyone, whether they want anything to do with it or not.

For personal use it sucks when you only want to sync a few folders to e.g. a PC with a small hard drive, or if you've got a data cap.

The new "online only" option is nice but "don't auto-sync new folders" is a seemingly simple option that's been missing for years. OneDrive has it.[1]

[1] https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...

[2] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-which-OneDri... "If you're choosing folders on two computers and you create a new folder on computer A that you want to sync to computer B, you'll need to go to computer B and select the new folder there."

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Re:Dropbox Professional by steindavidb on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:12PM (#15494996)

this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro

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Re:Dropbox Professional by rdslw on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:31PM (#15494096)

Im not from Dropbox but answer is easy: because that would canibalize on selective/smart sync feature.

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Re:Dropbox Professional by roryisok on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:34PM (#15494130)

I did not realise I wanted that until now. Makes perfect sense

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