I am a developer. I keep my software in my Dropbox. When am actively working on my software, I make lots and lots of little changes. These files get saved many times throughout the day. This leads to many revisions. And when I am sure things are working, I commit the changes to GIT. And GitHub.
When I realize I have gone down the wrong path, I want to go back to previous version, from before I made the changes. I need to look at the actual contents of the file to know which version I need to go back to.
Dropbox makes this extremely difficult.
Take a web page as an example, starting with an HTML file. The preview function on the web always formats the HTML. It makes no sense. I need to see the actual contents of the file. The HTML is little more than a TEMPLATE. Most of the content in the page is generated by JavaScript. And it is formatted by CSS. The HTML preview is worthless to me. I need to the the actual text of the file in order to find the version I need to revert to.
Please give me a way to see the actual content of the file!
It was suggested by customer support that I download the files to view them. Can you imagine what kind of nightmare that would be? How could I know which version is which with all those - maybe 50 or more!!! - downloaded files. And I don't see a way to download more than one at a time. They also suggested I rename the files so they have a .txt extension instead of a .html extension. One at a time. 50+ files.
All this, when the web site could EASILY present the files in their original, unformatted form. Like the web site does with so many other files. Like the JavaScript. And the CSS.
