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Question about using Google's dropbox "free" online storage

Starter: nightowl613 Posted: 12 years ago Views: 405
#4780833
Lvl 13
Please move this if anyone objects to it's placement here. This is mainly for android users since their dropbox service is sort of intended to be used with android, but it mainly serves as google's online backup/cloud storage service. I went to their site, I jumped through all the FUC*ING hoops imaginable to access the free 48GB of space. So I'm eventually granted the space to use. But when I went to upload a folder containing MP3s which I wanted to, well, back up, I was given an error message saying I could......"not upload files of this type". Um, what? I did everything right. I managed to upload some files (mp3s and a few pics) that I individually pegged for upload. I've already got some pictures stored on Dropbox so I know it works.
But if you have so much stuff that you need anything more than a couple gigs of space to store it online, then you probably have those files in (all together now)......*folders*. That's right, kids! Yet it would seem to me that with Dropbox, you can't upload entire folders, only individual files, and if, like many of us, you may have a picture archive of thousands of pictures which you want to upload for cloud storage, it's going to take longer than it takes for fucking WOOD to petrify to tag all of them for uploading. Plus if you're uploading a music library, it's sort of pertinent that the files stay in the folders they're already in. In the case fo iTunes, the folders are divided by artist, then within that you have albums, then tracks. So what can I do? And do other online backup non-free services allow you to upload-god forbid!!-entire folders?
#4780835
Lvl 13
Well, come to find out there is no way to do that from a computer. That's right, you can't upload a fucking FOLDER to the online service run by the world's premiere web presence. I swear they do this shit on purpose. Why? Really, why? Sure, I could do it if I installed their desktop "client" (i.e. yet ANOTHER damn program I'd have to install. Why can't I just drag and drop a folder into the browser like you can do like with files you want to upload?) but I'm not going to do that just on principle. Like I don't have enough shit to worry about. Now this. 50 gb of free storage, rendered useless because by a shitty interface.
#4780837
Lvl 20
They'll fix it.

But I agree it was poorly implemented.
#4780838
Lvl 13
I hope they do fix it. They really should have thought that through a little better. If you can do it from the client, then it should have occurred to someone to be able to do it from the PC desktop w/o the "client".