Today, my Aperture library is 109GB, because I work with archival scans from medium format film.

TL;DR: 100GB is a very small limit. How can I pay you more?

Between the tight OS integration and the hash table lookups (it checks to see if that MP3 is already in their storage cloud, leading to regular "instant upload" scenarios) I believe that Dropbox is the best new software tool of the decade.

I'd really love to see this too. Like a feature where you could choose whether you wanted to sync specific data or just back it up or something.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/175

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Thanks for the heads-up that you won't publish anything to FB/Twitter without explicit permission as that's exactly what I came to the comments to find out. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of your users read hackernews though, so it'd be nice if you added a tiny "why are we asking you to link up" and/or "what will happen if I link up" blurbs explaining that you're not going to instantly make us tweet how awesome Dropbox is (which I would do anyway, but I absolutely hate services that auto-post after connecting).

Edit: This would really only be useful for powerusers unless you gave it a nice front-end interface, but would you consider possibly creating something similar to a .gitignore config for your Dropbox? I constantly get random junk files based on OS and editor that end up in my Dropbox folders that I'd love for the central service to just ignore when syncing (like Thumbs, DS_Store, vim swp, random editors throwing backups ending in ~, etc).

Here's a question: I'm very inclined to pay for Dropbox, but I don't actually need 50 GB - I use 1% of that now. On the other hand, I would absolutely pay the same amount for 10 GB for 5 years. It would give me the warm fuzzy feeling of giving back and I would feel safer with the service. Have you ever discussed this model? Any plans to implement it?

I'm sure many people that use dropbox like me to backup code, whole websites and writing/ uni work would feel the same way.

5TB sounds good, but how long does that take to sync? I've got about 20GB in mine now I think and syncing it to a new computer seems like it would take several days (I get the "grab a snickers" message). I usually start of a new machine my rsyncing stuff over so not the end of the world, but it would be useful to download stuff at a speed resembling what my, not that great, connection can handle.

Dropbox rules by the way, it's changed how I use my computers :)

As far as what you can do today with facebook, if you download the beta builds from the forums you can get access to a new sharing model. You can publish links of files to facebook & twitter. This page will change a lot when we launch this properly, but you can see what i mean: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owdlzphfhiw2ao4/koalabox.PNG

Facebook and twitter are great for sharing, so it makes sense for Dropbox to leverage them when people want to share files. Photos is a good example application where sharing often means pushing to a social network.

Like I mentioned elsewhere, there is a lot of work to do on different pricing plans.

>All transmission of file data and metadata occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL).

>All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256).

And yet I hear people here saying that Dropbox is "missing encryption." What's the real story? Are there more technical details on your encryption posted somewhere on your site?

I'd really like to know, as I actually have a good deal of semi-sensitive information stored in my account right now--a decision I made based on the wording I copied in above and on my trust in the Dropbox folks so far.

They do not mean that Dropbox is insecure. Dropbox is secure.

The problem with end to end is that it makes sharing or public files unfeasible, and those are important parts of Dropbox.

But everytime you slightly change the contents, Dropbox will have to resend the entire container - thats one of the features of good encryption

As far as I can tell from my own usage, the only portion that is uploaded is the changed portion. I have a 1GB container currently synced and when I change files in that container, I can assure you that it doesn't upload 1GB of information. It appears to only transfer the delta.

I don't know how the two are supposed to combine, but the prediction is that for a truecrypt disk image, any change in the contents produces a very different disk image all over - so transferring "the delta" is still a much larger amount than you'd expect.

Although, if this were the case it would also have to rewrite the disk image a lot and that might be quite bad for just local use.

Edit: Ivan read my mind. Dropbox API project I now have. :)

Are their plans to make this more intuitive, given this is how you yourself find dropbox most useful?

Congratulations on all the successes. You guys are doing something way cool. One question - when did you know Dropbox was a winner? And if the answer is "right away," then when did you really know Dropbox was a winner?

Any specific events stand out to you?

The Cloud™ is one of those mega trends, and Dropbox is right in the middle of it.

Regarding your "voting" system so users can "decide what we work on next", why is it that there are things with tens of thousands of votes from a year ago not "being worked on" (or declined), yet "use application indicator in Ubuntu" with three hundred votes is being worked on?

What's the point of a voting system if you don't address the most voted items first?

Free storage for following dropbox on twitter has 16 votes.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/2235/free-storage-space-for-...

Any plans along those lines?

Also keep up the good work!

thanks!

Also, it isn't clear at all from this post that the page isn't done. There are important but missing steps, for example. Also, there is no link currently from the normal web experience to /free.

Such a write-up would be useful if only for us though. Writing codifies coherent thinking.

Apply to something that looks good, but explain you're looking for an internship. Do the challenge problems to get noticed.