Existing users, 
I read the terms and it says that they can terminate at any time without notice. It also says that they can delete any files after 90 days of inactivity. The software might provide warnings about this, but the website terms say that they are under no obligation to provide such a warning.
So that warm fuzzy secure feeling you get from having all your stuff backed up on a cloud should be tempered by the fact that the cloud needs regular activity, and can disappear without notice.
Now how do you feel?
Dropbox
Cross-platform file storage, sync, sharing solution.
Version: 0.6.570
Caution for free users
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: sonicraft Sunday, August 30 2009 @ 11:22 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
Backup is YOUR responsibility - MarkusWinter
NOT the responsibility of dropbox. DropBox is brilliant to keep some data synchronised between computers or to transfer large files to somebody else (I just transferred a 700 MB file to my father in law in NZ), it is NOT a backup service.Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 02:14 AM PDT
Caution for free users - strachan
This is not a backup cloud. It's a sync service. If you use something often (such as a planbook), the quoted usage warning is moot.Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 01:48 AM PDT
Caution for free users - Felix01
Yea, it always concerns me when I'm getting something like this for free...because it can just as easily disappear in the middle of the night. So I use it for the synchronization convenience between computers but it sure isn't my primary or even secondary backup.If Apple's iDisk were as fast as Dropbox, it would be my choice for this (file sync) task. But it's not. Not even close; albeit, getting better. For awhile there, iDisk was so slow and unreliable I was having to use Cyberduck to unload data to the 'cloud.'
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Sunday, August 30 2009 @ 04:59 PM PDT