In 2020, Dropbox launched “new paper,” which turned the flat list of Paper documents on paper.Dropbox.com into literal files that live in your Dropbox folder. This was a staged rollout. Mine wasn’t migrated until five years later.

For a while, I could edit “paper files” that other team members created, and I could create paper docs on the old version (to the utter confusion of my team members), but I couldn’t create new paper files without duplicating a team member’s doc and deleting the content.

Now when I visit paper.Dropbox.com, all of my “old paper” docs are completely missing and I see an empty list (of what I presume are old-style docs.) :( I have local backups, but like, what’s the point of maintaining two separate services with the same name for five years?

Edit: Apparently my account was migrated in December 2024. I don’t know why the old interface is still accessible to me. A redirect or a message like “Check your ‘Migrated Paper Docs’ folder” would go a long way instead of showing an hauntingly empty list.

(I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses)

> (I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses)

I thought I had it lucky with my measly 25GB of lifetime storage. Have been using Dropbox for free for well over a decade – I would pay but their entry level plan far exceeds what I need.