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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Temporary storage of, say, a documentary with hundreds of hours of video so it can be transferred from the cameras to the editor who is working remotely seems like exactly the sort of thing Dropbox is for.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe I’m applying too much of my own personal use case for how I use tools like Dropbox then. I’m using it for documents I actually want synchronized between devices, with a cloud backup and history. I suppose if you’re looking at it for a cloud storage solution, ignoring the desktop sync aspect then I can see where that makes more sense.

    I just have a hard time wrapping my head around using cloud storage for such large files being an optimal solution but then again if storage cost is the biggest objection, unlimited storage sounds like it’s removing said objection and you don’t have much choice if you’re working as a remote team so great point, I hadn’t thought about it like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It could also be good for a sharing solution, since putting it on dropbox, and sharing the link would be fairly simple compared to having to deal with the complications of sending larger videos in other ways.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    If you have hundreds of hours of 8k footage, no one is going to edit it off of Dropbox.

    If you have the storage capacity to hold all that footage elsewhere, you also have the capability to enable uploading directly to that storage.

    No one is using public cloud storage for these kinds of use cases, unless they’re extremely foolish.

    That being said, offering “unlimited” and then reneging on it is also, IMHO, foolish.

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