The only feature I want in addition to what Dropbox already gives me is a little box I can check that says "Never Delete Anything."
That's it.
Just never give me the option of permanently erasing an entire folder of photos from every machine I've ever owned just because I mess up your wacky Selective Sync workflow.
I understand that there exist people who actually want all their machines to sync destructive changes, but I've never met one of them. More often, I see people lamenting that they deleted something important a year ago, thinking it was still backed up, but now it's gone.
So yeah, you're not a backup service, you're just sync. I get that. But please please be a little less syncy and a little more backupy and you'll fit the worldview of a lot more people.
It sounds like this is a step towards this (and four thousand steps past it), so at least we're getting close.
I've mistakenly deleted files before, and Dropbox did two things: email me that a large number of files were deleted, and linked to my history page where I could restore them. It was a great experience, and seems like a solution to your problem.
Dropbox has had the "packrat" feature for a long time that keeps deleted and previous versions of files. I've been lucky enough not to have to use it much but the few times I have it's performed as expected and been invaluable.
That's it.
Just never give me the option of permanently erasing an entire folder of photos from every machine I've ever owned just because I mess up your wacky Selective Sync workflow.
I understand that there exist people who actually want all their machines to sync destructive changes, but I've never met one of them. More often, I see people lamenting that they deleted something important a year ago, thinking it was still backed up, but now it's gone.
So yeah, you're not a backup service, you're just sync. I get that. But please please be a little less syncy and a little more backupy and you'll fit the worldview of a lot more people.
It sounds like this is a step towards this (and four thousand steps past it), so at least we're getting close.