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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/b00nish on 2024-01-24 12:50:22+00:00.
Just a little rant and warning regarding Dropbox.
We don't use it for business but the boss of a company which is a customer of ours used it on his private laptop that died. He had activated the feature "dropbox backup" which stores a copy of some typical folders (Desktop, Documents, ...) in a separate area of the Dropbox.
Now we had to setup his new private laptop and wanted to access/use that backup.
But wait: you can't!
The Dropbox client has no "Restore" feature, unless it's the same computer & installation that you did the backup from.
The only way you can "access" (well, not really) the backup from another computer ist to download the whole thing via a webbrowser. Just that this doesn't work either, because that feature would provide the whole backup in one huge ZIP-File... but then fails doing so, because the backup is of course much too big to be provided via a ZIP-Download in the browser.
In other words: if you use Dropbox' Backup feature, you send all your data to Dropbox but have in most scenarios no way to get any of that data back. Ever. It's completely useless.
Unbelieveable that they have the nerve to release this nonsense and give their users a false sense of security.