You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Setting Dropbox Transfer preference
Hi, I’m on a Mac using the v.206.4.6506 of Dropbox desktop app. Recently when I’m uploading files using Dropbox Transfer, I set the expiration date, let’s say one year later, and turn off the ...
Hey @SteveDesmarais, I am a Product Manager on the team here at Dropbox! I wanted to let you know that after some investigation, we realized that recent changes we made to the desktop client seem to have modified the Transfer feature behavior. Based on what you've described there were two primary changes.
- As it relates to having your settings persist, this seems like a pretty easy fix and we're going to prioritize adding it back very soon.
- Supporting multiple windows being open at the same time will take a little longer, but I have added it to our roadmap.
I want to thank you for reaching out on the forums. Your feedback is extremely valuable and allows us to continue to build a better product 🙂
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the quick answer. How it was possible to have settings remembered before and also was able to have multiple window but now it’s no more possible. Maybe someone didn’t verified this before plublishing the update… or voluntarily decided to remove these features. Sometimes small decisions have big impact on users daily routine of doing things in their job. So I understand that my « suggestions » have been put in the jar of ideas to improve the app, maybe sometimes… instead of a list of things to bring back as it was before an update of the app?
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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey @SteveDesmarais, I am a Product Manager on the team here at Dropbox! I wanted to let you know that after some investigation, we realized that recent changes we made to the desktop client seem to have modified the Transfer feature behavior. Based on what you've described there were two primary changes.
- As it relates to having your settings persist, this seems like a pretty easy fix and we're going to prioritize adding it back very soon.
- Supporting multiple windows being open at the same time will take a little longer, but I have added it to our roadmap.
I want to thank you for reaching out on the forums. Your feedback is extremely valuable and allows us to continue to build a better product 🙂
