Hey #Dropbox, y'all need to rein in your marketing and web development team(s). I go to my Dropbox once every two or three months--and each time I end up having to learn how to use your website again because there has been so many changes. Please give me a basic file manager button, so I can by pass all of the BS website bloat FFS. Oy... :/
#psa Okay, learned a lesson today. I either missed this or the setting changed in an update. Both #OneDrive and #Dropbox have a setting for keeping all the files in the cloud rather than on your Mac, downloading them as you need them. This means that if you need them and the service is responding poorly, or you have no connectivity, you can't get to your files. If you use #scrivener, for example, which syncs through dropbox, this can cause sync errors between devices!
Both services appear to set all files online only. Both services have a way to change this to ensure all files are downloaded for offline use.
#Writers, #authors, as well as #artists, I strongly suggest you keep your files on disk as well as in the cloud. Change these settings now!
Okay. Interesting. Moving files from Dropbox creates placeholder files that are empty but take up space. There's a little cloud symbol beside the files in the dropbox directories, but they refused to download. Sheesh. Luckily, the files exist online. I've logged on to the online dropbox and downloaded all my files to my hard disk in a separate directory as a backup. I'm trying bypassing the dropbox refused to sync issue by signing out of dropbox and orphaning the current directories. Signing on again, but creating new dropbox directory tree on disk that must be downloaded again from the #dropbox#cloud.Hoping that this fixes the #sync problems I'm having between platforms, at least from the Mac perspective.
Super weird to me that Dropbox has told Dropbox Sign customers to "delete your existing entry and then reset it" if they use app-based MFA. I have never seen "delete your MFA and create new tokens" in post-compromise account hygiene advice before.
I suspect two things:
1.) Dropbox was storing plain text MFA seeds right next to their password hashes
2.) We're going to hear a lot more about this soon.
If you use Dropbox you should probably change your password.
Headline: #Dropbox Hacked! Threat Actor Accessed Passwords and Phone Numbers
Snippet: A quick analysis revealed that a threat actor had broken in to access customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, as well as general account settings and certain authentication information (API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication).
vi ricordiamo che da 1 anno tutti gli utenti di #MastodonUno possono fare richiesta di un account Nextcloud da 25GB per poter conservare e condividere file senza le limitazioni presenti su mastodon.
Nextcloud è un progetto open source e permette di importare automaticamente tutti i file dall'account #dropbox.
Questo è il modulo di richiesta per ricevere i dati di accesso:
Cloud storage company #Dropbox reported that a hacker breached company systems on April 24 and gained access to sensitive information like passwords and more.
In particular WHY that particular method? need cross device/platform? 2 b available online? What (about this, or any method) are challenges to you? Do you struggle to organize your notes? What would you wish was better?
#Police in Plymouth Township, #Michigan are investigating whether a lighting system that was set up by a mystery person to flash when someone approached a #ballot#DropBox was an attempt to #intimidate#voters.
Aargh: #Dropbox users on #Mac: you probably don't want to do the thing that the Dropbox app is trying to make you do with its "migration" thing.
Up until now, Dropbox files tended to live as regular files in $HOME/Dropbox. Now they live in $HOME/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox and are inaccessible to terminal users. Guess I can't use Dropbox as a free sync service any more.
(also: why Mac OS doesn't allow me full access to files in $HOME ... these are my files)
It is a sad commentary for #iCloud and #Apple and its #cloudservice when I store a couple images in iCloud files on my #iPhone, then go to my #Mac to use them and discover they aren't there. The Mac has no way of telling #Finder, "Hey, stupid. Refresh. Look for my new files that I need NOW!"
No button. No clickable icon. No menu item.
So what did I do?
On the iPhone, I moved (copied) the image files to #Dropbox. The files instantly up/downloaded to my Mac. Literally, less than 5 seconds.
How much am I paying Apple for 2 TB of storage? Well, too embarrassing; look it up. What I am paying for Dropbox is zilch, nothing, nada, bupkis.
Terrible user experience: Downloading or uploading a large number of files to or from #CloudStorage services like #DropBox and #OneDrive; I regret taking on this task.
Another item to add to my increasing feeling that I no longer love I.T. support.
What is the current state of #dropbox Were there some privacy controversies recently? I stopped paying attention when they added the waterboarding lady to the board.
#Linux friends! Hi! I'm considering switching my daily-driver laptop back to #LinuxMint. Are there any better, stable, and reliable #cloud storage providers that support #iOS, Linux, #macOS, AND #Windows than #Dropbox nowadays? I switch between devices and OSes frequently.
Also, any issues with Dropbox that I should be aware of? I didn't have any issues before but it's been several years since I last used it.
Yesterday, someone on my timeline posted a #Dropbox link to some "high-quality" audio in a WAV file but with downloading disabled, meaning that it could only be played via the app or website. Dropbox doesn't make it obvious that in such a scenario, the content is re-encoded to AAC LC for streaming, in bitrates ranging from 128kbps to 320kbps. Perfectly acceptable audio quality for most things, but it does negate the point of linking to the large WAV file in the first place.