So I have only ever really used Dropbox as a folder on my desktop computer.
However recently my other half (who is also a dropbox PLUS member) has enlighted me on how totally ineffective Dropbox is for using a phone to upload.
Firstly, when uploading you HAVE TO have the app open at all times whilst uploading otherwise the upload STOPS. So if this is a large file you can't do ANYTHING ELSE on your phone for the entire duration of the upload? How has this not been remedied? It's annoying as hell.
Which leads me to point 2...
She's been trying to upload a 45 minute video, and can't even get past the "preparing to upload" stage. It had said "preparing" for AN HOUR with nothing changing. I was adamant the app must have crashed, because surely the preparing stage could not take this long, so we force crashed it, and tried again.
No matter what we do, we cannot get past the preparing to upload stage. And even if we could, we'd then have to sit there with the phone open and screen lock turned off, so that the app didn't stop uploading.
This is so so rubbish. Why would any of these things not been sorted? I saw on a different post that an "accepted solution" was that a 1 hour video took TWO DAYS to upload! What the hell? How can that be an accepted solution?
Is this really what dropbox is like to use as purely a phone app? I'm relieved I've never had to use it in this way, but my partner is in tears just trying to use the stinking app to upload some work that she needs to share with someone. I thought Dropbox was the best name in the business for file sharing, but I'm starting to seriously doubt this now.
Should we be looking for another app to share work files? Or is there a fix we don't know about?
