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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by codecutter »

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. I didn't want to go to either Google or Microsoft, so I went with Mega.nz and I am very happy with them. I pay around $30/year for 400 GB storage. (most likely a grandfathered plan, not sure of current pricing).

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by canistel »

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

Same story here too, except that we moved to Syncthing. Periodic cloud back-ups with Rclone, in addition.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by jazzyjackson »

SilverRed wrote: post #30
arthurcolle wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

New Age neo-hypertext document type (proprietary, of course) that supports collaboration using the Dropbox™ suite of services

So a competitor to google docs / office?

To me it seems to want to be Google Wave. A union of documents and chat channels so your workspace can be all-inclusive, but I think it has a bit of a fax machine problem in that I don't know anyone else to use it with.

Edit: the toolbar on a new "Paper" doc allow me to insert an image, media, dropbox file, table, timeline, to do list, and code blocks. I can link a calendar event to a doc, Oh, I can hit a button to switch to "Presentation Mode"... and I can highlight text to comment on it. So on second thought it seems very similar to google docs.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by jez »

codecutter wrote: post #41
sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. I didn't want to go to either Google or Microsoft, so I went with Mega.nz and I am very happy with them. I pay around $30/year for 400 GB storage. (most likely a grandfathered plan, not sure of current pricing).

For what it’s worth (not trying to convince you to switch back, just want to provide my perspective), I still use Dropbox on Linux (Pop!_OS 20.04) via their official installer and it works completely fine:

https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by danillonunes »

refulgentis wrote: post #12
elwesties wrote: post #8

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I would make that tradeoff in a second.

Nonsense. You're saying you'd prefer shaving 125 Mbps off your Internet connection over 60 MB of your 8+ GB of RAM.

I have 32GB of RAM and I would still do that trade off. The 60MB is there all day long doing nothing for me. The internet connection is actually being used for something useful which is synchronizing my files (the actual purpose of the software). I feel like I'm wasting more resources with the first option.

Also it's not even that bandwidth expensive with most users' workflow. Maybe this should be a concern for video editors. Majority of people who are just editing word documents (or code, for what I believe is most HN's audience), wouldn't notice the difference.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by ec109685 »

tra3 wrote: post #13

I wonder what's stopping dropbox from revoking their API tokens. Isn't this competing directly with the "official" clients?

What API token are you referring to? Given it is open source, how are they keeping the token secure?

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by brightball »

ents wrote: post #31
SilverRed wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So a competitor to google docs / office?

Theoretically. I don't know a single person that uses it.

I use it. I find it to be a great option for my note taking.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by defensem3ch »

jez wrote: post #44
codecutter wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. I didn't want to go to either Google or Microsoft, so I went with Mega.nz and I am very happy with them. I pay around $30/year for 400 GB storage. (most likely a grandfathered plan, not sure of current pricing).

For what it’s worth (not trying to convince you to switch back, just want to provide my perspective), I still use Dropbox on Linux (Pop!_OS 20.04) via their official installer and it works completely fine: https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux

It should also perhaps be noted that you can't sync to a Dropbox folder on an NTFS drive in Linux with the official client. You can however do this with Maestral.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by firecall »

Spooky23 wrote: post #15
SilverRed wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family…

If you make a lot of changes, the Dropbox sync works. Google drive or OneDrive choke in a variety of situations. The product sucks in lots of other ways.

Indeed!

Google forced the new Google Drive client on me...

On my M1 Mac it crashes constantly and the Finder pops up Google Drive disconnect dialogues constantly.

Two days into finally relenting and giving the update from Backup & Sync to the new Drive client another try, it's still churning through my files!

It may never finish at this rate it constantly crashes!

Google Drive on M1 macOS is bad. Really bad. :-/

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