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1. Upgrade to pro for a single month (Dropbox often offers free trials)
2. Add all your devices
3. Downgrade back to free
Dropbox will continue to work on all your devices. You just can't add new devices.
Source: I currently have five devices on the Dropbox free plan.
That question sounds to me like “have any of you switched away from myspace?” I last used dropbox ~15 years ago. Since then I used S3, Google Drive, Synology NAS, and iCloud. I don’t need to do any syncing across devices: if I need a file I know where to find it (gmail if it’s a document, icloud if it’s an image/video). I still back everything up to Synology.
Years and years ago. I see you've tried many things but not described whatever issues you may have had with them. I use Nextcloud running on a NAS which also runs a Wireguard endpoint so I have access via VPN to my home network when I am traveling. It's not perfect but does what I want it to do syncing a folder of files between Linux, Windows, and macOS systems, and the iOS app works well enough. I don't use it for l…
I tried to install nextcloud on a digital ocean droplet and a borked installation corrupted everything in a way I didn't think was even possible on Linux. I had to restore from a backup.
I tried to use owncloud locally on a raspberry pi but the client app on Mac and Windows, I tried for about a week to get it to sync but every time I opened up either machine I seemed to have to stop and restart the client and even then it wouldn't always connect.
I just use Google Drive since it's where all my stuff lives anyway. It's free up to 15 GB, or $20/yr for 100 GB. Probably if you're on Mac or Windows, iCloud and whatever the Microsoft one is called now also has free storage? For source code and config, just make a Github repo for them so you can host them for free in a private repo and also version control them?
I use syncthing. It's so simple. How did it fail for you? The only problem I can think of is that they both/all need to be on. I have almost your exact same use case. I do sync one machine at work, but mostly I'm just trying to avoid drive failure and be able to share programming projects easily.