Dropbox Transfer

Post by tyingq » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

mbesto wrote: post #82

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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…

Post by tyingq » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 5:51 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #118

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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.

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…

Post by angry_octet » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

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What filesystem are you using? ZFS? You don't have any HFS+ or APFS volumes?

Correct, I use ZFS for my home directory. I do use APFS for everything else. But I’d have preferred to keep my Dropbox folder under my home so I got rid of Dropbox altogether.

Post by gravitas » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #133

gravitas wrote: post #102

Collected alternatives from the comments here: https://wetransfer.com/ https://swisstransfer.com/ https://transfer.midrive.io/ https://send.firefox.com/ https://transfer.sh/ ps: I really wish HN supported basic markdown so we can make bullet lists and other simple formatting controls, nothing wild like citation/footnote support just the top 5-10 markups. Trying to make a list of URLs to share looks like ass here.

+1 to supporting markdown although I feel like comments would get kinda crazy looking if there was more than just emphasis and code formatting.

Post by app4soft » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 6:13 PM UTC

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+1 to supporting markdown although I feel like comments would get kinda crazy looking if there was more than just emphasis and code formatting.

My top 5 wishlist: bold, italic, lists, inline code `` and link formatting [](). (edit: and change 2 spaces indent to 4 spaces indent for code blocks to align with real markdown)

  *Italic*