Dropbox 1.5.7 Experimental Build adds Mountain Lion support
If you are a user of the file synchronization service Dropbox, you may know that the developers are releasing experimental versions regularly in the forum. These experimental versions are like public beta versions. They often ship with additional features and improvements that the developers want to test using a larger audience.
The latest experimental version of Dropbox has been released yesterday, bringing the version of the client to 1.5.7 for users who install it over their existing Dropbox installation or on a new computer system. The experimental build is available for all supported operating system. Existing Dropbox users can simply install it over their current version on the system.
Dropbox recommends to make a backup of all files that get synchronized on a computer where the new experimental build is installed on.
Dropbox 1.5.7 ships with the following new features:
- This build improves support for the Apple Macintosh OS 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system
- Windows users can now drag and drop files and folders on the Dropbox Windows shortcut to move the files into the Dropbox
- The Lan network card detection code has been rewritten to improve the feature. The developers note that users may experience issue with the new feature.
Most Dropbox users who have commented on the release announcement in the Dropbox forum reported no issues with the new release.
Dropbox 1.5.7 is not the only experimental version that the developers have released in recent time. The latest stable build of the client is 1.4.9, and a total of three additional experimental builds have been released in the meantime.
These versions feature performance improvements, a number of fixes, support for Korean and a number of smaller changes.
It is not recommended to install the experimental builds on productive systems unless you create regular backups of the systems and the files that Dropbox synchronizes. It is likely that Dropbox will release the new version in the near future.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.