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Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by tzs »

gravitas wrote: post #147
joeblau wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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)

You can manually inserts bullets (U+2022) to approximate lists:

• foo

• bar

• spam

What I most want is a way to force a newline without starting a new paragraph.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by te_chris »

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.

Agree about that, but I actually do all my prod work in DB, so always synced, and one click to share a file link

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by PascLeRasc »

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.

That's a really nice service, thanks for the rec. From the name I expected it to feel cheap like WeChat but I'm very glad to be wrong, it seems pretty much perfect.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by bad_user »

tyingq wrote: post #143
bad_user wrote: post #118

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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…

The stock chart for Dropbox from March 2018 to now seems to indicate something pretty bad is happening.

That may be true.

I hope they'll survive because I don't think I can find a good replacement.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by Xylakant »

jpeloquin wrote: post #144
Xylakant wrote: post #54

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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

You can have multiple Linux Dropbox clients running if you point them at different home directories. First run (installation): `HOME=/path/to/client-specific/home/folder dropbox start -i` Subsequent runs: `HOME=/path/to/client-specific/home/folder /path/to/client-specific/home/folder/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd start -i` Edit: Each "home directory" here can be any folder; you're essentially presenting a fake home director…

How do you do this on windows? I’m working in mixed env. All documentation indicates it’s impossible.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by istillwritecode »

I dropped my paid Dropbox account when they instituted "two factor authentication" because it broke the use case of file transfer between trusted parties using a single account. Now I'm going to drop my OneDrive account for the same reason.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by eitland »

dudus wrote: post #127
stjohnswarts wrote: post #93

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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.

No. Google scans your file and index them so you can search them. No advertising profile is created based on content of your Google Drive.

They used to scan mail - or at least have an option for that in gmail - to show relevant ads in Gmail.

They stopped doing it years ago I think.

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by eitland »

severaldayz wrote: post #113
stjohnswarts wrote: post #93

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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?

It was well known for us early gmail users that they would scan mails (on-the-fly iirc) to provide relevant ads.

They were fairly up front with it (remember, back in the days Google was a nice trustworthy company or at least that was my impression.)

Re: Dropbox Transfer

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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.

There's also the magic wormhole:

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

It depends on a central relay server but the planned Tor hidden service feature could change everything.

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