L4sBotMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoDropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI trainingnews.ycombinator.commessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1684arrow-down117file-text
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minus-square@nutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agoit was painful to migrate from dropbox. their api is shit and does nothing to guarantee delivery. i had to split folders into 5gb chunks and download everything in zip files through the browser. it took a year. what an awful company.
minus-square@eluvatar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoWhy not use something like rclone to download your stuff?
minus-square@nutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI tried several third-party tools and all of them had the same problems with the API
minus-square@M500@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI’ll never work with them again and actively. Advocate against them.
it was painful to migrate from dropbox. their api is shit and does nothing to guarantee delivery. i had to split folders into 5gb chunks and download everything in zip files through the browser. it took a year. what an awful company.
Why not use something like rclone to download your stuff?
I tried several third-party tools and all of them had the same problems with the API
I’ll never work with them again and actively. Advocate against them.