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Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically, it does have a windows client. It's just in various states of being broken.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The web interface also works just fine

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it do offline sync?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would need to know more about your use case

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just mean does it keep offline copies of the most recently synced versions, when you're not connected to the internet? And does it propagate local changes whenever you're back online?

Dropbox does that seamlessly on Linux and Mac (I don't have Windows). It's not just transferring files to and from a place in the cloud, but a seamless sync of a local folder whenever you're online, with access and use while you're offline.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Gotcha. I don’t know, I never tried. I’m curious now and will investigate.

[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 1 points 3 weeks ago

The windows client does, yes. But I’ve found that to be fragile on occasions.