{"id":51333,"date":"2015-07-15T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=51333"},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:01:39","slug":"5-best-things-about-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/5-best-things-about-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Best Things About DropBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">5 pros and 5 cons of using DropBox.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>5 Best Things About DropBox<\/h4>\n<p>by Karen Homan for Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s free.<\/strong> A free account gets you 2 GB of space. For me, that\u2019s not very much, but since I already have other areas where I save my digital music and the bulk of my images online \u2013 I use Dropbox to store a minimal amount of files I\u2019m working on regularly and it suits that need fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s NOT Google.<\/strong> Between the Google search engine, my Android phone and Google everything else, I\u2019m fairly thrilled to find something that isn\u2019t integrated with Google. I know I could be using Google Drive to store and work on my files, but I\u2019m a little tired of Google having access to everything I do. In my mind, they ARE Big Brother. Plus, I\u2019m not terribly impressed with their Office-like app functionality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It syncs.<\/strong> With average size files, syncing is pretty much drop and drag, wait a minute and bada-boom, you\u2019re synced \u2013 your files are now available on your computer, your phone and your tablet. If you hate looking around for that flash drive or are simply in a hurry, Dropbox delivers as long as your internet does too.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nYou can share one or all of your files.<\/strong> If someone else has Dropbox, you can share certain files with them. They can even edit those files and share them back in your Dropbox if you are collaborating on a project. Even if they don\u2019t have Dropbox, you can send them a link to view the files you want to share.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThere\u2019s an undo\/delete.<\/strong> Who doesn\u2019t like UNDO? Seriously? I\u2019m a deleter from way back. I hate clogging up my email account with trash and spam. I go through it all as best I can and delete stuff permanently regularly. Some people can\u2019t live with that process. At least with an undo\/delete feature, you\u2019ll feel a little more confident that your 1,000 page autobiography hasn\u2019t disappeared off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/the-ups-and-downs-of-dropbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Worst Things About Dropbox<\/a>&#8211;Article Continued Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 pros and 5 cons of using DropBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":48158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-51333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daves-computer-tips","tag-dropbox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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