[rogerbinns]

Dropbox need to do a lot better job on space usage. It is trivial for Dropbox accounts to end up with more usage than many common devices have (cough MacBook Air cough). We had managers deleting content to free up space, not realising that deleted it for everyone. I guess their mental model is seeing the Dropbox folders as more of a cache than synced files affecting everyone.

Yes, there is selective sync. Now use it to reduce consumption by 10GB. It requires lots of non-Dropbox tools to try to achieve that. They do need an alternate way similar to hierarchical storage that brings in files as you need/reference them, rather than everything.

[justinpaulson]

This is entirely my problem with dropbox. I can't even use the desktop client on my Macbook Air because of the terribly limited space, and my Macbook Air is where I want to be able to use cloud storage the most. What is the point in cloud-based storage if I have to have copies of all of the files on all my computers!?