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Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by JorgeGT »

tyingq wrote: post #16
TeMPOraL wrote: post #3

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.

Yep, my uni got O365 so good luck trying to convince them to consider Dropbox, too bad for those of us with Linux workstations! I have seen multiple unofficial clients but I'm not convinced of trusting them (or me configuring them) with valuable data.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by rtsil »

ihuman wrote: post #83
puranjay wrote: post #48

I do music production as a side hobby. Virtually all the producers and studios I've worked with use WeTransfer. It's fast, efficient, and free. I can't see any reason to switch.

This might be more to stop people from switching away from Dropbox, not convincing people to switch to Dropbox.

Agreed. It's one less account to deal with for me.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by severaldayz »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #93
angry_octet wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've never heard this before. Is there any evidence (not speculation) that this is true?

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by hnews_account_1 »

mbesto wrote: post #82
silviogutierrez wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100%. I shut down DropBox at last $dayjob (mid-size) after piloting OneDrive. Saved tens of thousands a year. OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better. More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.

> OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better. I'll hold my breath. Dropbox basically had sync across all major OS's ready to work very early in its life (10 years ago?). The fact that OneDrive and Box's desktop sync performs so poorly leads me to believe this is not where their engineering effort is and nor will it anytime soon (it's probably more on the back-end admin for enterpris…

In my experience, if you're not doing programmatic access into your synced folders, onedrive and Dropbox perform similarly enough to not make a noticeable difference to the average user. But if you do large amount of read / writes to the folder, both of them struggle with it.

My company currently does this currently, as we wait for a more seamless system to be set up. So it does a write every minute of the day to a Dropbox sync folder. Which only syncs up once every few minutes. So essentially I do miss a few minutes in a day, but since it's just a human consuming the data, I don't mind.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by hnews_account_1 »

enitihas wrote: post #85
tyingq wrote: 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 use Dropbox only because of Linux Support. In India, All of Office 365 is stil cheaper than Dropbox, but no linux support stops me from using it.

Onedrive is unbelievably cheap in India. I think I initially bought it for ~Rs. 3700 for one year. Every fucking year after that they've been raising prices and sending me an email about it. And every year I check up on competition and nothing else looks this good (you need a LOT of features to make up for not offering Office 365).

I've moved to the US after that, but I didn't bother changing the location on the MS account.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by silasdavis »

datashow wrote: post #27
tyingq wrote: 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 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.

Yes this annoyance stops me from wanting to upgrade. I don't need these shares synced but either I delete my grandmother's funeral photos or upgrade.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by bad_user »

tyingq wrote: post #16
TeMPOraL wrote: post #3

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.

Dropbox is much better. Data is important and the difference between a premium service and one that is a complementary is that the later will be full of bugs and will corrupt your data.

Dropbox surely had its share of problems but in my experience with the 400 GB archive that I have is that Dropbox was the only one with a decent client that actually works.

In general you get what you pay for and €10 per month doesn't break the bank.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by lotsofpulp »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #93
angry_octet wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I can't imagine Dropbox won't do the same once they get into a tight financial spot. Or whoever buys Dropbox, but same difference.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Causality1 wrote: post #92

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.

I would have asked them why they felt entitled to space, bandwidth, and computing power on someone else's computers.
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