

Overlay icon wars, unexpected price rises and competing vendors trying to grab the same folders? This cloud storage stuff is trickier for users than it first appears. "We do not currently support a configuration where both iCloud and Dropbox sync the same files," said Dropbox support. Apple is pushing its own iCloud storage, which applies to the Desktop and Documents folders by default, and it does not work smoothly with Dropbox. Dropbox Advanced gives teams as much space as they need, along. Existing subscribers will move to the new pricing on their first billing date on or after July 5, 2022. For those who opt into our annual plan, their effective monthly price will be 15/month per user. Maybe this is another factor behind Dropbox wanting you to use its own app. The Dropbox Standard Plan will now be 18/month per user for monthly subscribers. Since there are six OneDrive overlays and 10 DropBox overlays, it is actually impossible for both sets to be fully functional. In 2009, Microsoft's Raymond Chen argued that "overlays are not a good way of presenting information" but the OneDrive team apparently does not agree. Not a good user experience, and a bizarrely small limit in a dark corner of Windows. They are also not too good at cleaning up, so if you inspect the registry entry you see duplicates distinguished only by the number of leading spaces. This means that applications simply prefix their icons with spaces in order to get to the top of the list. Spot the prefixed spaces as vendors fight to be in the top 11
