Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up

Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by overgard on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:42PM (#9775656)

So I'm still a dropbox customer, but I haven't really used it in months. The problem is the "just one folder" thing is really limiting. I really really need the ability to map it to different places on my hard drive. A lot of programs are finicky about folder layout, and dropbox does not work well with them.

I ended up just buying a VPS with git support and using that. It's obviously a very technical thing that most people won't do, but it's way more flexible.

I think the problem with dropbox is it's very easy to get started with them, but the advanced use cases are not only not considered, it's clear they just have no interest in those uses.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by nemothekid on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:38PM (#9775790)

I've never really found it all that limiting, and I'd argue I prefer it that way.

The solution I've come up with is putting a symlink in the dropbox folder to the folder that needs to be synced. That way dropbox "sees" all your files, but your programs can just continue like normal. (I'm guessing you are on OSX/Linux).

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by overgard on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:00AM (#9775850)

I'm a weirdo that still uses windows (on my mac, of all things), because its graphics drivers are better for graphics programming and visual studio is way nicer than xcode. I use OSX too, but I can't really depend on symlinks existing across my machines.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by sapek on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:10AM (#9776074)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194.aspx

Or does Dropbox not support symlinks on Windows?

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by anotherevan on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:28AM (#9775950)

SpiderOak will let you handle assigning different folders.

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