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Dropbox is taking suggestions on new features, vote for resource fork support!

by Matt Heerema (RSS feed) on Nov 13th, 2009



Dropbox, one of my current top 5 favorite apps, has opened voting for their features roadmap. Some neat suggestions so far, but the most cryptic of the top 5 is among the most useful for Mac users: resource fork support!

For those less technical among us, the resource fork is metadata attached to a file that helps Mac OS better understand a file. Things like custom icons, folder info, spotlight comments, openmeta tags, and even file type are defined here. This is how Mac OS can do extension-less file names. This resource fork information is stripped in many backup applications (including Dropbox).

Go vote this feature request up (sign-in required) so we can all rejoice!

Here's the top 5 requests at time of writing:
  1. Selective sync. Ability to choose which files or folders get sync'd to which computers.
  2. Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder
  3. Share folders without forcing other members to lose space.
  4. Email files to Dropbox.
  5. Mac resource fork support

Tags: DropBox, feature requests, FeatureRequests, resource fork, ResourceFork

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Help the revolution: submit feedback

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 4th, 2006


This is more of a public service announcement and reminder than anything, inspired by TUAW reader Jer's comment on my .Mac syncing UI silliness post. Jer asked whether we were submitting feedback to Apple concerning gripes like the one I blogged, and the answer is 'most definitely yes.' This brief dialog inspired me to take the opportunity to urge all Mac users everywhere to do the same.

If you have a complaint, a feature request, or maybe you just found a bug in Mac OS X, or another piece of Apple's software, apple.com/feedback is a great place to go and tell them about it. Most of Apple's apps are categorized there, and it's a simple process for submitting your comment. While I don't believe it's in their policy to reply to anything submitted there, you can rest assured that it's one of the best places Apple uses to collect the information they use to keep tabs on how we like their software, especially when it comes to creating all those official bug reports you'll find sprinkled throughout their support and knowledgebase articles (besides, who wants to take bets that their engineers have TUAW in their newsreader?).

So remember boys and girls, when it comes to feature requests, UI gripes and bug squashing: ask not what Apple can do for you... but submit some feedback so the world's best operating system can get even better.

Tags: Apple, bug, bugs, complaints, consumer, customer, feature requests, FeatureRequests, feedback, gripes, Mac, OS X, OsX, products, reporting, software, squashing, UI

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