A cautionary tail regarding data loss…
Despite my best efforts, my wife has resisted for years my requests for her to stop relying on iCloud and Dropbox and move her cloud storage onto our NAS which has perfectly good file sync and backup clients.
#dataLoss #backups #iCloud #Dropbox #NAS #cloudStorage #fileSync1/8
Just dropped #Dropbox.
Engadget: Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager. “Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/engadget-dropbox-is-pulling-the-plug-on-its-password-manager/
Just cancelled my Dropbox subscription. Gradually weaning myself off US-based big tech, one service at a time.
Did y'all know Dropbox had a password manager?
Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager
Dropbox discontinues its password manager
Dropbox wants to focus more on its core product – and is therefore discontinuing its Passwords service. Administrators have a lot of work ahead of them.
Dropbox stellt seinen Passwortmanager ein
Dropbox will sich stärker aufs Kernprodukt konzentrieren – und stellt deshalb seinen Dienst Passwords ein. Administratoren steht viel Arbeit ins Haus.
Dropbox zamyka menedżera haseł. Korzystasz? Lepiej się pospiesz
Dropbox ogłosił, że usługa do zarządzania hasłami, Dropbox Passwords, zostanie wkrótce zamknięta. Co nietypowe, harmonogram wygaszania usługi jest bardzo napięty, dając użytkownikom niewiele czasu na znalezienie nowego rozwiązania i przeniesienie swoich danych.
Jako oficjalny powód zamknięcia menedżera haseł firma podaje chęć skoncentrowania się na ulepszaniu innych, kluczowych funkcji w swoich podstawowych produktach. Decyzja ta oznacza, że wszyscy użytkownicy Dropbox Passwords muszą jak najszybciej wyeksportować swoje zapisane dane logowania, aby uniknąć ich bezpowrotnej utraty.
Proces zamykania usługi został podzielony na trzy etapy, które nastąpią w bardzo krótkich odstępach czasu:
Dropbox zaleca użytkownikom przeniesienie swoich danych do innego menedżera haseł, wskazując jako przykład usługę 1Password. Alternatywą jest również wbudowana w urządzenia Apple aplikacja „Hasła”, która jest preinstalowana na wszystkich produktach tej firmy. Aby wyeksportować swoje dane, należy postępować zgodnie z poniższą instrukcją:
Dropbox just proved even they struggle with password management Shutting down their password manager by Oct 28 after just 4 years. Users get until then to export data before it's gone forever. Their reason? "Focusing on core features" - tech speak for "oops, we overextended!"
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1814253/dropbox-pulls-the-plug-on-password-manager
ok I'd just like to shout out to the #Thunderbird team - no matter what/what else #mozilla seems to #enshittification , so far TB is intact. #outlook used to be the GOAT but now its #shit and plugins are $$heckaspensive and also shit. Meanwhile TB chugging along with a beautiful ecosystem of apps that just _work_
Shout out to #Qnote and #quickfilters plugins!
AND - and I know they say you _shouldn't_ but - you can put your mail store in a #dropbox folder.
My dropbox client on the phone has stopped syncing photos. It SAYS it's uploading, but nothing is moving. Nothing like having something stop working to underline how much you actually depend on it.
I'd share a screenshot, but... welp.
Dropbox made some kind of weird change to their stuff, and now my backup script doesn't back up the Dropbox directory anymore. Seriously, WTF?
If anyone has ideas or wants to suggest things, it's a DOS batch script that uses xcopy /d /e. Listing the source dir in DOS still shows all files, with newer mod dates than in the target dir. Dropbox reports source dir status as "Available on this device".
Any ideas? Or should I convert my backup script to Bash in WSL?
Dismiss. FO!
Let me guess, In a year it'll be 'upgrade your subscription to keep access to your online ONLY files'.
I repeat, local storage is comically cheap. You are a backup and syncing tool, nothing more. Go away.
NO! Hardrive space is comically cheap. I want you as a backup not a critical resource. GTFOH!
Hat schon mal jemand Jottacloud benutzt oder welche Dropbox-Alternativen benutzt ihr?
Does anyone use a good #dropbox alternative for cloud back up?
I've spent this morning going through https://openalternative.co/?alternative=dropbox and they're all not great.
Best options seem to be a paid Nextcloud host (e.g. I should go through the Nextcloud partners, https://nextcloud.com/partners/ , but they all seem to be aiming at businesses who need file-sharing, collaborative editing, and I just need backup)
I'm also trying @peergos but immediately encountered a bug, so I'm not optimistic currently
There's a growing movement on the #fedi that wants people to switch away from Big (US-based) Tech and towards #FOSS alternatives like #Linux, alternatives to #google, #Microsoft, #dropbox etc.
For #screenReader users, that might not be as simple as all that due to #accessibility reasons. This weekend's IC_Null stream aims to dig into this, but I need your help. What tools, services etc. should I look at from an #accessibility perspective? Anyone here who needs their tools evaluated? Anyone here who's curious about a particular tool or suite of tools? Let me know and I'll add it to the list. Anything goes. #selfHosting #blind #tech #EU