Yikes.
Since I’ve become a lifetime member, these are some changes Icedrive has made, quietly, which have only been discovered after accepting the new app update (because updates will make things better, right? Why would they prompt an update for regressions? …he innocently thought):
-Removed the ability to sync a whole local drive with Icedrive (cool, now I get to do it all manually)
-Limited the amount of “syncs” to 15 (cool, now I can’t do it all manually the way I was planning and now need to consolidate my desired folders to sync down to 15 because… it makes things better for the Icedrive system???)
-Removed “1 minute” sync interval option to now sync every 5 minutes at the most frequent (cool, now I get to twiddle my thumbs for even longer thanks to a “fix” to a former non-issue)
-Removed the cache limit setting and offloaded the responsibility to users to clear the cache manually, lest their local drives fill up without as much as a peep from the Icedrive app. (I share the same frustration as others here).
This is all incredibly frustrating and goes BACKWARDS in terms of functionality. I can’t see a great reason for most of these other than reducing the burden on Icedrive’s servers and dev team. I can see how this might be good for them, can’t fathom how this is useful for any end user. I am now finding myself in need of other tools to fill the gaps caused by the deficiencies of Icedrive’s UPDATES. The updates continue to break functionality that I was depending on and that was already part of the system I paid for in good faith, assuming that my payment was supporting continued development that would result in improvements in the product. I could kinda sorta maybe understand if this was on a shorter timeline and genuinely improved things, but as of 2.71, I am still having random small files in the transfer queue, repeatedly, forever, for no good reason, and still having items that are fully synced in the cloud, synced on most local syncs, but non-existent on others. Separate issue, but I’m still totally unable to depend on Icedrive’s Android app to sync even my camera roll any time other than when it effing feels like it, and forget about anything else on the phone. I became a lifetime member nearly 3 years ago. I understand it’s difficult to manage server space/bandwidth, app development, API, etc. But come on. Mega, PCloud and others have managed just fine. Icedrive seems to keep REMOVING the features I most depend upon with every update. And yes, I know the response to most of this will be the usual “Please submit a ticket.” But to what end? There are three possible responses: 1. That’s the expected behavior. 2. This is an anomaly. Problem on your end. 3. We are working on a fix for this (WHEN!!!)
Icedrive: please, at the very least, keep all the features you’ve currently got, don’t take them away, and make things better on the sync side while keeping everything else static. It doesn’t work great in every use case now, but Jesus, can you please stop axing useful functions with minimal notification to users WHILE preserving bugs? Thanks.
-Frustrated, reluctant lifetime member out.
