to say that Dropbox is crap?

[clam]

It's deleted files and folders and regularly reorganises things without permission!
What else can I use instead?

It is. I can't get my head round it at all.

Oh no :( I've been using it to back up family photos. I didn't know it deleted things! Hope someone comes up with an alternative for us!

I love mine! Never deleted anything or reorganised in a year!

Well, I THINK it's got something to do with when I log on at one of the laptops at work that is for everyone to use. Something to do with a roaming profile???
And if I dig about in the "deleted items" folder, I can restore them, but it's a right pain to do (as I have thousands of files).
Have asked several techie mates why it does this and drawn a blank.

Google docs

I like it - use if for work
JUst watch the tutorial, I find it very instinctive

you can get space by doing that, by tweeting, by recommending it to mates

I like it - in principle! Especially as memory sticks have proved fallible (banned for a while as virus issue, plus they can get lost and become corrupted).
But I DON'T like the fact that it pisses about with my stuff.

I put two folders of pics on there and it was full (and they are just ordinary pics, not videos). I've moved over to Picassa.

I've never had a single problem with it ... Maybe because we don't hold much in it. I'll keep a closer eye on it in future.

Yup. Crashes constantly.

I work in a 'virtual office' with several other colleagues (ie we're all at home and connected electronically). We had been using Dropbox for sharing files and keeping the most up-to-date version a file for us all to access, and we found that it kept on making 'conflicted' multiple copies of files, particularly if more than one of us had the shared folder open at the same time. We've since - reluctantly - gone over to using Google Docs, which is so much better for multiple-user files: it even updates in real time so you can see other people making changes as they occur (this is a little bit creepy). The downside: I'm not thrilled with expanding the Google business empire further; their ethos all seems a bit megalomanical.

Is your folder shared with others, maybe one of the other members is deleting stuff because their box is getting full?

When I was doing my PGCE at uni we had a shared folder of resources, which everyone could add to. One day another student decided her dropbox was too full and deleted a whole chunk of stuff from the shared folder, deleting it from everyone's dropbox.

Fortunately I knew how to "undelete" the files and they appeared back in the folder the following day.

Not a shared thing, no. Just me.
But I spent ages recently, tidying up all my stuff away into folders and 3 days later it was all undone and scattered back over the desktop.

I've never had that at all- use it for work and home stuff.

A timely post - today Dropbox informed me I was out of space on my free account which I use for backing up photos from my phone. Fair enough. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for stuff.

Well, until I saw the prices. In order to upgrade my 2GB free account, the next step up is 100GB at $10 a month. That's a lot of money over the year. Backing up photos from my phone (which is all I use it for) is not worth £80/year, that's ridiculous. So now I am going to look into using something else, although I have no idea what yet. Dropbox came with the phone in some sort of marketing tie-in, so seemed convenient at the time.

I am sure they would get far more people signing up if they had a $1.99/month option for 10GB or something. When am I ever going to use 100GB from my phone? There must be thousands of people like me who just use it for that as it came with the phone who don't want to pay that much for an excess of space. It's all very annoying.

It's never crashed, but I've hardly been a complicated or intensive user, it all goes into the same folder!

I use Crashplan to back up my decent dSLR photos and videos (plus general backup) for what it's worth. I have over a terabyte on there right now which I happily pay for. I don't believe it is as user friendly as Dropbox but for my purposes it works just fine.