Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up

Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by jen729w on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @08:21PM (#9775281)

FWIW, I really don't like the new Mac client. It may be partially Apple's fault - changing the way they have to integrate with Finder - but it's just not as robust as it historically was.

Have you tried creating and moving a bunch of folders? Something about the sync causes them to jump around, you get leftover "untitled folders" all over the place, it's just not a pleasant experience.

If you move folders (full of folders), the web interface reports that you "Deleted 4118 items" (!) then you "Added 4118 items" (aaah). Stupid.

I've been a Dropbox user forever and only recently have I lost faith that it "just works".

[Edit: stated that I "hated" the new Mac client. Realised that was perhaps too strong an emotion for a bit of software.]

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by WalterSear on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @08:28PM (#9775304)

Just be glad that you have't had days and days of pegged cpus. :(

I'm actively looking for an alternative.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by xenadu02 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @09:21PM (#9775466)

I think it's doing something crazy with fsfilters because I notice the DropBox process kick up CPU usage when I'm copying files in a completely unrelated directory (or even at the terminal). I think it is trying to observe all file changes on the filesystem.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by jen729w on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @08:33PM (#9775318)

Yeah I get a fair bit of high CPU usage, I hear the fans on my old MBA and quit/relaunch the process. Doesn't happen too often, only about once a week. :-/

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