What I'm left with is a nice app that shows the awkwardness of the app model. You can drag files from Explorer to Dropbox to upload them, but can't do the reverse to save them locally. The Dropbox app's drag-and-drop is also a sticking point it only goes one way. Moreover, the desktop app doesn't merely allow drag-and-drop with Explorer: it lets me use Explorer for all aspects of Dropbox file management, since all the files are synced locally. The desktop app can also start automatically every time I log in to get on with the job of syncing without me having to think about using the app. I suspect that this is because the UWP app still has to operate in the sandboxed world. The desktop app has free and unfettered access to my hard disk so that it can sync all the files in my Dropbox folder sandboxed apps do not. If you want this kind of syncing, the UWP app tells you to install the regular desktop app. My hard disk contains a full replica of my Dropbox files and any changes I make to that replica get pushed to the cloud automatically and transparently. The desktop app can, for example, sync all my Dropbox files locally and automatically.
But I use the desktop client, not the UWP client, and I will continue to use the desktop client because it works better.
It's an important service to me, and having a good client is valuable to me. Only traditional desktop applications could offer them.Ī second is that it supports drag-and-drop you can drag a file from Explorer into the app in order to upload it to your Dropbox account. Jump Lists were introduced with some fanfare in Windows 7 Windows 8 not only wasn't very good at showing those Jump Lists (since the Start screen offered no way of seeing them), it also had no way for modern style apps from the Windows Store to even use them. More broadly, the app shows how the UWP is much better than the old Windows 8 app platform. The Dropbox app shows this in a couple of ways. One, it supports Jump Lists, the custom menu options that you get when you right click an app on your taskbar or pinned to the Start menu.This is a minor thing, overall, but it touches on one of the sore points of Windows 8 that had many enthusiasts annoyed. It also has interactive notifications for invitations to shared folders that allow those invitations to be accepted or rejected from the notification itself.
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