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Re: Dropbox Transfer

#91

Post by cpach »

ant6n wrote: post #35
datashow wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Dropbox because they count shared space against everyone involved, which makes me cannot share the "photos" folder with my wife (unless we both purchase the 1T plan). Not sure whether they changed this practice. I am a satisfied OneDrive+Office365 user now.

Or share one account with your wife.

Not entirely unreasonable but might still not be convenient or desirable for them. Even married couples might not want to share everything with each other.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#92

Post by Causality1 »

I'm done with Dropbox. I spent years preaching the Dropbox gospel to my family and friends. When Dropbox decided to fuck their free users by limiting them to three devices I got over a dozen pissed-off phonecalls blaming me.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#93

Post by stjohnswarts »

angry_octet wrote: post #71
laurentdc wrote: post #68

100 GB only in the Professional plan though ($19.99/mo)

Doesn't really seem good when Google has: $ 1.99 100GiB $ 2.99 200GiB $12.99 2000GiB

But doesn't google scan the files and use them for advertising and profiling you? Yeah I know you can encrypt the data, but my point still stands for "regular" users.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#94

Post by rusty__ »

app4soft wrote: post #73
soapdog wrote: post #38

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.

There is also http://transfer.sh [0] [0] https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/

I've used wetransfer for files up to 2GB (https://wetransfer.com). If you need more they have a very reasonable $12/mo pro plan that gives up to 20GB per transfer and options for password protection etc.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#95

Post by stjohnswarts »

deith wrote: post #4

Why so many animations, pastel colours, big fonts? Is this a service aimed at children?

People seem to be designing for mobile devices now rather than for desktops. So they greatly simplify the layout and optimize it for skittles colors and one column display

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#97

Post by mtzaldo »

anderspitman wrote: post #90

Seems useful, and a step in the right direction. I think the future of file sharing is permanent URLs to files stored on decentralized hard drives, with dead simple access control settings (ie here's the list of email addresses that can access this file). You need either ipv6 (plus an ISP that allows port 80), or some sort of proxy for this to work. Range requests must be supported. Also I think it needs to be design…

This is a great idea. We can named it hftp :p

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#98

Post by gravitas »

Faaak wrote: post #61
kenneth wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I found a news article from February with a bunch of info: https://news.infomaniak.com/en/swiss-alternative-wetransfer/

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#99

Post by Strom »

rhodysurf wrote: post #58
datashow wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Dropbox because they count shared space against everyone involved, which makes me cannot share the "photos" folder with my wife (unless we both purchase the 1T plan). Not sure whether they changed this practice. I am a satisfied OneDrive+Office365 user now.

I had this happen recently. Our photographer from our wedding shared the photos on dropbox but we couldnt see them because we didnt have dropbox pro and the folder was over the free size limit! Why does it matter how much space I have if someone else is sharing them with me?!?!

It's not about your space, it's about your payment. If someone like a pro photographer shares their stuff with clients all the time, then their dropbox subscription won't necessarily cover all of that bandwidth. [1] Companies like dropbox only mention bandwidth in fine print or buried somewhere deep in the FAQ, but bandwidth is a key resource that every dropbox user consumes and dropbox has to pay for.

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[1] It might if dropbox was a more lean operation, but it isn't.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

#100

Post by bhauer »

johnchristopher wrote: post #24
FreeInFlorida wrote: post #8

Their answer to Firefox Send? send.firefox.com

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

We use a self-hosted instance of Firefox Send in our office since it's easy to install and operate. I recommend others do the same.

I've used the main/public send.firefox.com several times for personal use, but I'll probably set up a personal instance on a VM soon.

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