Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released

Zack writes "Dropbox has finally released version 1.0. The new version comes with hundreds of bug fixes, including invalid file names on Windows, weird Unicode normalizations, Word and Excel file locking, abnormal symlinks hierarchies, and case sensitive file systems on Mac. It also adds TrueCrypt support, a Rainbow Shell that offers support for extended attributes, selective sync, a new installation wizard, and reduces resource usage."

Comments

Re:Impenetrable

[juuri]

If you would do a little research before opening your mouth, you would see what their value is.

HINT: Integration.

Re:What is it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cut this "cloud" crap. Dropbox is nothing more than a remote file repository. It also provides with a daemon/client which keeps directories in your local system in sync with the remote file repository. Do you also believe that a FTP server is "the cloud"? And that an email server is "something that places your messages in the cloud"? Do you also believe that a website server is "something that places documents in the cloud"? Fuck the cloud and fuck pretentious posers like you, who feel the need to speak in buzzwords and marketing speak to try to lie their way into looking like they have rediscovered the wheel.

It's cloud marketing bullshit

[syousef]

Dropbox is several things at once, so I forgive your confusion :)

First, it's a cloudbased fileserver. You can upload your files and it will keep 2GB or more of them on the cloud (S3) for you to access. Not a big deal so far. If you pay money, you get much more space.

However, you can also give other people access to your files. And it will keep all the versions of your files. This is a bit more interesting.

Cloud based? Give access to files? You mean like FTP has for decades? (Or more recently SFTP so you're not sending credentials in the clear)

Oh file versions and cloud based? You mean like a CVS or SVN server.

For fuck sake, this is nothing but crapware with bullshit marketing thrown in. The moment I see the word 'cloud' used as a computing term I assume I'm about to have my intelligence insulted.