Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity
Dropbox Votebox lets you decide what they work on next
by Matt Heerema Nov 13th 2009 at 11:00AM
Dropbox is one of my current top 5 favorite apps. It's an extremely useful utility with a few, very powerful, easy to use features, and now they are looking to expand. With Votebox (must be signed in to see the page), they are letting the user base vote on which features they work on next. Thousands of votes have already been cast. Here are the top 5 at the time of this writing.
1. Selective sync. Ability to choose which files or folders get sync'd to which computers.
2. Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder (thus essentially replicating the functionality of SugarSync). This would be sweet, though I wonder how it would affect the current simplicity and performance of the app.
3. Share folders without forcing other members to lose space. I'd be interested to see how they handle this one. It could open up loopholes for vastly expanded storage space for groups of people.
4. Email files to Dropbox. Use an email address to upload files to your dropbox space.
5. Mac resource fork support. Perhaps the most cryptic of the requests. The resource fork is essentially metadata attached to the file that helps the Mac OS understand the file better. It defines things like custom icons, window sizes, menu definitions and the like. It is also how Mac OS can do extension-less file names. These things are generally stripped by backup programs (like Dropbox). This would be an extremely useful feature for Mac users.
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Cam said 11:12AM on 11-13-2009
"2. Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder (thus essentially replicating the functionality of SugarSync). This would be sweet"
heh. I get it. It would replace SugarSync, and it'd be sweet. hah.
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Gav said 12:34PM on 11-13-2009
2 because I ditched DropBox for Syncplicity a long time ago now.
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Dano said 1:30PM on 11-13-2009
3 and 4 would be my wishlist items first. It's the simplicity of DropBox that still has me giddy about it and, although new features are fantastic and this list would bring a lot to the part, 3 and 4 keep in harmony with simple-but-powerful.
On my "B" list of preferences, in descending order... 2, 5, and then 1.
I love DropBox. Just thought I'd mention that again.
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Jamus said 2:03PM on 11-13-2009
If they do resource fork support, I sure hope it is optional only and not set by default.
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sageimac said 11:25PM on 11-13-2009
Dropbox is great. It is like carrying a flash drive without the risk of losing it. And it's free. I use it all the time to work on the same files from my PC at work and my Mac at home.
If you sign up from a referral, you get an additional 250MB of storage space free!
Here is a referral link:
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEwNDQ3MTU5
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Online Backups Review said 5:10PM on 11-14-2009
It'd be great if other companies started asking their customers which were the most important features they'd like to see, versus what the company thought was most important. Often, the two are not the same.
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janes said 1:15PM on 11-15-2009
#2 watch a folder will rock.
YMF
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wordord said 3:24PM on 11-15-2009
i don't understand why we would need any resource fork support when everything works beautyfully now (i use dropbox on 2 macs, 1 pc, 1 linux computer). wouldn't those resource fork files just scr*w everything up on the other platforms? as with those usb memories i used before dropbox was invented, where every folder was full of useless files beginning with ._
or am i missing something here?
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Christian Velasquez said 1:25PM on 11-16-2009
How the heck do I submit a suggestion/idea?
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Ian said 2:08PM on 11-16-2009
I use Live Mesh for this. Does Dropbox offer more advanced options? Does it also do remote sessions?
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Mike said 3:07PM on 11-20-2009
Selective sync would own, I'd finally be able to use Dropbox with my netbook (which has
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