Dropbox now in public beta

While the terms are a bit disturbing, for personal use this is great. I do have one complaint—the fact that on Leopard (not sure on windows machines) it replaces the folder and document icons. I am fine with files having their proprietary icon overlays when they are within the dropbox folder, but when I take them out (say into my documents folder) I really want the green check-marks to go away. Is there a way to do this?

Jason

Yay! My tip got posted. :D

This disturbs me quite a bit from a copyright/business standpoint…
While you own the content contained in Your Files, you hereby grant all other Dropbox users and the public a non-exclusive, non-commercial, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit Your Files in your public folder. In addition, you hereby grant Dropbox users who have been given access to your shared folder a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit Your Files in your shared folder. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to grant these licenses.

And why should DropBox be censoring anyone?! This is unsettling to me as well…
Post, publish or transmit any text, graphics, or material that: (i) is false or misleading; (ii) is defamatory; (iii) invades another’s privacy; (iv) is obscene, pornographic, or offensive; (v) promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any individual or group; (vi) infringes another’s rights, including any intellectual property rights; or (vii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability;

Interesting service but these legalities need to be cleared up.

Ignore the wieners complaining here. Like I wrote, the software is amazing. Think about the combining the use of this software with small files and symlinks...Kind of like Mozilla Weave for all types of programs.

I'd like to use this but it does not auto sync between my mac pro and the cloud/web site. Only syncs from the web site to me or if I quit and restart the app. Using latest client, no firewall or corp network, tried reboot...nada. Worked on the wife's intel iMac with no problem.

Have you actually read the T&Cs page?


It's a little frightening actually.

You made Dropbox sound good so I decided to try it. Unfortunately, immediately after install (and I'm almost 100% sure it must be related to the Dropbox software install as I nothing else going on), Spy Sweeper told me that it had blocked access to AD.FIRSTADSOLUTION.COM which is a known spyware site.
I'm deleting Dropbox right now -- I hope I don't have malware pop-ups that others have had...

Dropbox is the best. I'm a writer and use it to sync work files and it's such a relief to always know I have the version in the office and at home. If only MobileMe worked as quickly and reliably.