{"id":24609,"date":"2019-03-14T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24609"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:24:01","slug":"dropbox-limits-free-plan-to-three-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/dropbox-limits-free-plan-to-three-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox Limits Free Plan to Three Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/03\/14\/dropbox-free-storage-plan-three-devices\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/03\/14\/dropbox-free-storage-plan-three-devices\/\"><p>Dropbox users who have a free Dropbox account are now limited to using that account on a total of three devices, according to new information added to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.dropbox.com\/account\/computer-limit\">the Dropbox website<\/a> and spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liliputingnews\/status\/1105492923611783168\">on Twitter<\/a> (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/14\/18265574\/dropbox-3-device-limit-free-accounts-plus-professional\">The Verge<\/a><\/em>).<\/p><p>Dropbox says that as of March 2019, &ldquo;Basic&rdquo; users, which is the free tier, can add their account to three devices. Dropbox users who already have their account attached to more than three devices can keep them linked, but there will be no way to link additional devices when over the three device limit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have a Mac, an iPad, and an iPhone that&rsquo;s already three devices. I imagine this will accelerate the trend of people <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/09\/16\/why-i-left-dropbox-for-icloud-drive\/\">switching to iCloud Drive<\/a>. I&rsquo;ve been working towards that myself and keep Dropbox quit most of the time on my Mac, as its file change monitoring is disruptive.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/the-dropbox-comp\/\">The Dropbox Comp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/dropbox-drops-public-folders\/\">Dropbox Drops Public Folders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/replacing-dropbox-with-resilio-sync\/\">Replacing Dropbox With Resilio Sync<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/replacing-dropbox-with-icloud-drive\/\">Replacing Dropbox With iCloud Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/dropbox-modifies-tcc-db-to-give-itself-accessibility-access\/\">Dropbox Modifies TCC.db to Give Itself Accessibility Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/dropbox-cuts-prices-increases-storage-adds-features\/\">Dropbox Cuts Prices, Increases Storage, Adds Pro Features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/disabling-dropboxs-haxie\/\">Disabling Dropbox&rsquo;s Haxie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"dropbox-limits-free-plan-to-three-devices-update-2019-03-15\">Update (2019-03-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstucki\/status\/1106291537850306563\">Brian Stucki<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstucki\/status\/1106291537850306563\">\n<p>I made the jump from Dropbox to iCloud Drive this year and it&rsquo;s been really nice. If you really want to rid your Mac of the app itself, Transmit from @panic does a really nice job of logging into Dropbox for any shared folders you still need to access.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarkGoble\/status\/1106304924319535104\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarkGoble\/status\/1106304924319535104\">\n<p>Obvious way around - multiple accounts and then share folders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peternlewis\/status\/1106390228355309568\">Peter N Lewis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peternlewis\/status\/1106390228355309568\">\n<p>The problem with all these subscription products is all the companies want $10\/month.  If DropBox offered a $10\/year plan (or even $20\/year) they could probably make a fortune.  Instead they just keep trying to drive away low volume customers.  It is just not worth $120\/year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1106335776147755008\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1106335776147755008\">\n<p>Its malicious, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1106664863932272640\">fake system dialog<\/a> which attempts to steal your user account password so it can keep itself enabled in accessibility settings is also disruptive, among other things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/dropbox-to-limit-free-accounts-to-three-devices-heres-why-this-is-a-problem\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/dropbox-to-limit-free-accounts-to-three-devices-heres-why-this-is-a-problem\/\">\n<p>Back around 2014-15, I took out a pro subscription with 1 TB, but there was no way I could make it worthwhile. I don&rsquo;t need 1 TB, and even if I did, it wouldn&rsquo;t fit on my Macs; I could put that much data on an external drive connected to my iMac, but now my MacBook Pro. (Yes, I know, selective sync; but I still don&rsquo;t need that much storage.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Dropbox doesn&rsquo;t have a low-priced, low-GB plan. I&rsquo;d happily pay, say, $20 a year for 100 GB, because I am aware that I&rsquo;ve been getting this service for free for many years. But I&rsquo;m not spending $100 a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Dropbox users who have a free Dropbox account are now limited to using that account on a total of three devices, according to new information added to the Dropbox website and spotted on Twitter (via The Verge).Dropbox says that as of March 2019, &ldquo;Basic&rdquo; users, which is the free tier, can add their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-03-14T20:15:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"a6dd571a-c79b-475b-b755-b0d6b9d8c60d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-03-22T15:24:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Apt1XGsebR1u3VbDWudjGDQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,35,47,913,31,1610,26,30,32,1609],"class_list":["post-24609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-cloud","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24697,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609\/revisions\/24697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}