DropBox - How many people use it?

Hi Brent, you're going to get dramatically skewed results asking in this format, because your replies will be from a small, self-selected group of Warriors. For the most part, people who haven't heard of DropBox and have no use for it won't even choose to read the thread, and you'll be excluding some high proportion of them from your statistics, without even knowing what proportion.

If I might offer a suggestion, you might avoid that to some extent by not mentioning "DropBox" in the thread title but calling it something more like "Question about online document storage/sharing" or whatever function it is that DropBox actually fulfils?

It depends on exactly what you're trying to measure, and why ... :confused:

use it all the time! brilliant service

i think every Imers should use dropbox, if someone have not using it then we should introduce it to them.

i have a 8GB account by getting free space from each referral signup.

dropbox is by far the most useful IMer tool for me.

dropbox do not allow sync for the folder outside of dropbox folder, if you want to sync a folder on your desktop, you can install syncplicity for the purpose.

Hope this help.

I use Dropbox and I love it. I have it on my computers and iPhone. However, I'm looking into and trying out Skydrive, simply because it offers more storage for free. So far, its just as good if not better. It seems to be a little bit faster and the iPhone app is a little nicer.

Not as many apps integrate with Skydrive as they do with Dropbox, but I'm still moving towards Skydrive currently. I'll just use both if I need to.

I've had clients ask if I use it. I only did once. I just didn't like the idea of it. Security purposes. It's not something I liked to use but that's just my skeptical nature of who all can access the files in it.

I don't use it anymore.

All my friends who are on IM use dropbox, and I am pretty above 70% of IMers use Dropbox. I have questioned many friends who are not in IM, and most of them said that they don't know what Dropbox is!

I have tried almost all cloud drive services and DropbBox proved to be the best. Btw did anyone tried Google Drive?

I found a better site than dropbox. It is called emaillargefile
It's easier to understand and you don't have problems as you can do with dropbox. I had trouble when I used it so I stopped.

I use it and love it. Everything I have is in three and I have access to it no mater where i am.

It's great! Right now I only use the free version, though I almost have the entire 2Gs filled so I will be upgrading soon.

I use dropbox a lot to but now I think I'll end up switching to Google Drive

Not that dropbox isn't good or anything like that but, it's the reliability that it will remain up after all this competition.

I use it and I love it - not for sophisticated stuff, just accessing documents from my PC and my Ipad when I´m on the road...

I love Dropbox - I use it everyday!!!

have been using it for years, not so much these days as I'm mainly on one PC

Pet hate is when I'm saving a largish file onto my dropbox and I mistakingly shutdown straight after without it completely syncing. Travel to another location with my laptop to start working on the file but it is no where to be found......back home again to turn the computer on and let it finish syncing

I use it mainly to get stuff from my phone to my computer and vice-versa. Just the free 2gb version though.

I heard the new Google Drive is offering 5gb for free, and they're offering 100gb for $5/m vs the dropbox $20/m. Think I'll be switching over as well.

I use it on my Android and it automatically sync with your PC client. Currently I have 5GB of free space account which I get via automatically photo update feature. Google drive also seems good to try if you are android user.

If you are not using dropbox or any other backup service already.. then you will begin using it
once your HDD crushes or somehow you got your OS system FAILED.

Don't learn to take backup your files the hard way.. sometimes it's really HARD

Great, thanks for the feedback everyone. Like I mentioned, we'll be looking to integrate it with our JotForm software we already have. People who create forms on our servers using JotForm will be able to have their customers/clients or anyone using their forms upload attachments to DropBox.

Thanks!

its seems to be a good service, I like idrive a little better because they have a wordpress plugin, but perhaps drop box will soon too.

Dropbox is the online storage leader with an estimated 40 million users.

Google Drive is nice, but the ease of use in sharing your files is not there yet. The thing about Google Drive is that it will has millions of gmail users to instantly give access to their service. Until Google Drive offers instant file url creation by right clicking, its not worth it for many. Almost everything else works comparably to Dropbox. Besides the lacking the iOS app part.

SkyDrive is going to be built into Windows 8, that alone might make it quickly the number one leader next year. If you had signed up for SkyDrive before April 22, you will get a free upgrade to 25 gb of data. Right now any sign up is 7gb of data, which is great. The best part is many people do not like installing 3rd party programs unless they absolutely half too. Being built into Windows 8 is a great marketing move by Microsoft.

Security wise, data stored on Google Drive and Dropbox is encrypted, Skydrive is not. There is a 3rd party program though that will encrypt any file you want and place it into SkyDrive for you automatically. People are already complaining to Microsoft about the lack of encryption in SkyDrive. Microsoft is moving to fix that. Even though some articles have stated it is encrypted, it is not.

Right now I use Dropbox because of the ease of use in sharing files through web links. I figure an online storage war is coming and more free storage will be offered by everybody. One way or another we will all benefit from more competition.

Love DropBox! I use it mostly for transferring files I'm working on back and forth between PC and Mac

Dropbox has a god UI , didn't noticed the size of uploads, though dropbox is awesome . They have iphone and android apps also ..

Dropbox is good and relatively cheap, but their current solutions for devices other than computers (i.e. tablets and smartphones) can be a bit annoying, lacking some "obvious" features. I use the free one, but my S.O. has the extended package (or whatever they call it) to back up the (tens of?) thousands of pictures and movies she makes. They will get better and improve the tablet solutions too I'm sure.

I use Dropbox and Google Drive. Both are just as good.

I used drop box.. but I think google drive is better just because there is no need to create a new profile and it blends in with your existing array of accounts.

Almost single one around here or online using Dropebox. However, similar services like that are also coming.

I use the free version, though I have quite a bit more than the standard 2GB from referring others.

If I needed a large amount of cloud storage, I'd probably look at the other options that offer better value. They would have to match Dropbox's usability for me to make the switch, though.

I'm using Dropbox every day at my work. It's much easier..
There exists just one problem...the size of the capacity. I already had to ad 2 members to gain more place for my documents.

I should activate my Dropbox Iphone app.....