OT: Anyone else using Dropbox?

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dat5150 wrote on 2/6/2011, 3:52 PM
I use the free dropbox for quick and basic work.

I like pogo for all the rest. Now they have a model for video streaming that looks interesting.... http://www.pogoplug.com
GlennChan wrote on 2/9/2011, 11:38 AM
Dropbox is also great for backing up your small files (ha, should've done that before my laptop was stolen). Apparently you can combine it with Truecrypt for more security.

Are you saying you know for a fact that no one reads or acts upon suggestions submitted to SCS?
Hmm... some of my suggestions actually got implemented.

The triangles of death are gone.

In 32-bit projects, you can make Vegas not covert HDV/MPEG2 to computer RGB levels. Maybe one day they will make the entire levels system more sane (not an easy task).
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/22/2011, 9:00 PM

It's perhaps that I'm an idiot and misunderstood how Dropbox worked, I'll concede right out of the gate that I didn't read the fine print but as of today Dropbox has lost it's charm and I just asked for and got a refund.

Here's my issue, I had upgraded to the 50 gig account and this week paid the $199 for the 100 gig account. How this hasn't happened before as much as I used it I'm unsure but I had a pretty big avi, 20 gigs or so, uploaded it to transfer to someone. I got an email back from the person that said "I had to delete the AVI, ‘cause I was at 994% of my allowed space."

After some emails with Dropbox it turns out (again it may be just me that didn't know this) but other people are only allowed whatever their account is, as in if they have a free account they can't get anything over whatever it is that's allotted to free accounts. For me this is a deal breaker. I liked Dropbox for it's convince, I loved that I could just upload stuff and *poof* my client would get the file as if by magic in their little folder, they loved it to. In theory with Dropbox I could upload a 20 gig file (or larger file) and send them a link but that defeats the purpose, and if it's 20 gigs of a lot of files it becomes even more fubar.

So if I have 100 gig account I can throw 100 gigs on there, share them over all of my computers, send out links right. If you have 100 gig account you can throw 100 gigs on there, share them over all of my computers, send out links right as well. Between us were spending about $400 a year for the privilege. But if you and I want to share files together we no longer have our 200 gigs, we have 100 that were sharing. If there's four of us sharing files that's $800 for us to share 100 gigs.

In my mind if I'm spending $100 a year that should be for my 100 gigs. If I share a folder with you and you or I add a file to it that it comes off of my 100 gigs. If you invite me to a folder what "we" put in it comes off of your 100. They way their doing it to me is shady.

In their email they stated "This policy exists in order to prevent people from giving themselves unlimited space by stacking free accounts and shared folders." which is a lame excuse. I'm a premium member. If I share a folder on my account with a free account it shouldn't matter. It would be quite easy enough for them to address this without double dipping (or tipple dipping, or quadruple dipping) customers for the same amount of space.

Enough of my rant. Again, this may have been what everyone else already knew and I'm the only one who had to go the long way to figure it out. Felt compelled to post not only to vent (though that was part of it) but also because I've advocated for them in this forum in several posts and felt I should be clear that my previous enthusiasm has been squashed.

- Ray
Underground Planet
John_Cline wrote on 3/22/2011, 10:28 PM
You can place the file in the "Public" folder and then go to your account on the Dropbox website and go to the file where you can get a download link to send to someone. They can download the file directly regardless of whether they have a Dropbox account.
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/22/2011, 11:15 PM

Thanks John, appreciate the reply but maybe I wasn't clear in my post, that was what I was referring to when I said "In theory with Dropbox I could upload a 20 gig file (or larger file) and send them a link but that defeats the purpose, and if it's 20 gigs of a lot of files it becomes even more fubar."

I neglected to specify that this would be in the public folder or with the new feature which is a tab at the top of any folder that says "Get shareable link". If thats all I needed Dropbox for I could simply use my own ftp server and personally defeats the purpose of using or paying Dropbox $200 a year for.

- Ray
Underground Planet
John_Cline wrote on 3/22/2011, 11:34 PM
Sorry, Ray, I did miss that detail. Your disappointment is fully justified.

Personally, I send large files (or groups of files) using the Dropbox link method, but I add all the files to a single archive file using RAR, which can be set to not compress files with specific filename extensions. RAR can create these archives quite rapidly. I can also password protect them so I can securely place them in the Public folder. This method might not work for you, but it works for my purposes.