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Re: Dropbox Transfer

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I use https://www.swisstransfer.com/ , which even if it only supports 50Gb and not 100Gb, it is totally free and doesn't need a account to upload the files. Way easier

How does Swiss Transfer make money? (As a Swiss, I love the sound of it. But need to figure out what their model is, otherwise surely if I'm not the customer, I'm the product)

They hope you'll use their other products (it's infomaniak.ch, a hosting provider, that operates the service)

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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I suspect the bundled OneDrive in Office365 is hurting them. Dropbox is better, but hard to justify if you already have something that's good enough.

I would have loved to use Dropbox, since they have a proper official Linux client. However, it’s impossible to have multiple Dropbox accounts sync to a single user on a computer (1). “Better” is relative to what you need. (1) exception: you can have one personal and one business account

Technically, you can run the dropbox client inside docker...

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I suspect the bundled OneDrive in Office365 is hurting them. Dropbox is better, but hard to justify if you already have something that's good enough.

I have the same feeling, OneDrive is garbage compared to Dropbox, insanely slow and terrible UIX and yet it is widely used. Classic platform move, bundle X with Office and it will be used by millions. Edit: I use Google Drive because of Google docs. sigh

Also, a fair amount of big companies block access to every other storage platform via MITM after they buy OneDrive. Which forces vendors to buy OneDrive to interact with their bigger clients.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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If you need to send large files to someone, you can use Firefox Send: https://send.firefox.com/ The file is encrypted, the urls are expiring, it costs nothing.

You should treat other businesses with respect, this is not a Firefox fan board. Dropbox is also an alternative product, even connected to this board and their service is superb. It is premium.

Why now ?

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the bundled OneDrive in Office365 is hurting them. Dropbox is better, but hard to justify if you already have something that's good enough.

I have the same feeling, OneDrive is garbage compared to Dropbox, insanely slow and terrible UIX and yet it is widely used. Classic platform move, bundle X with Office and it will be used by millions. Edit: I use Google Drive because of Google docs. sigh

how often have you used OneDrive lately? Which onedrive, the web interface, or the desktop sync client, or the mobile app?

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Unlikely. I have seen 0 send links around and wetransfer is still king of the office. I'd like to see some numbers, though.

same. first time i'm hearing of firefox send. is this something new that mozilla is offering?

Came out in march. Easy to install on a $5 droplet or a VPS.

Dropbox and wetransfer/send don't serve the same needs and don't offer the same experience.

I could see Dropbox getting back into the office with that tool, they have a brand to capitalize on after all, if they drop the mandatory login.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Good to see them finally doing something addressing actual user needs for a change, instead of chasing greener pastures. Given my informal observations over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if transferring large files was the main need that drives users to Dropbox - when dealing with individuals and companies outside tech, I frequently saw them giving the advice to "get a Dropbox" when someone needed to send them m…

I suspect the bundled OneDrive in Office365 is hurting them. Dropbox is better, but hard to justify if you already have something that's good enough.

O365 cuts off the oxygen for everyone. You can see with large companies, where even large sales forces moved to Skype for Business conferencing.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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You need Pro to change the expiration date or set a password.

what annoys me is the password part used to be a plus feature[1]. This is why I've started to try to move things to be self-hosted. Unfortunately I've been struggling with nextcloud + my NAS due to filesystem constraints. And it's to avoid silly crap like that that we enjoyed the cloud services. Ah, what a loop! [1]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Files-folders/Was-the-abilit...

What kind of filesystem constraints problem you run into? I've been using nextcloud on a vps using docker and resizing/moving storage used by nextcloud is quite easy on this setup (simply update the container volume config)
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