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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 cycomanic »

OnlyLys wrote: post #57
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).

> I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. Wait a second. Did they? My Dropbox client is currently working on my Arch system.

At some point they build in a filesystem check and stopped running on anything but ext4 (or btrfs?). IIRC they were constantly giving some notification as well.

It didn't really make sense either and I know several people moved away from Dropbox because they were using xfs. I'm using pCloud with their lifetime 1TB plan.

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

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Post by daniel_iversen »

sorry_outta_gas wrote: post #23

what is dropbox paper?

It's an online collaborative simple document editor/space where you can embed live web stuff into these virtual "pages" and hyperlink between them. It came out of Dropbox' acquisition of Hackpad (which itself was based on open-source Etherpad). Funnily enough, Google bought Etherpad and then I suspect that's what they used to create the revolutionary Google Wave in 2009, which of course they killed off years later (just to recently launch Smart Canvas or whatever it's called which is reminiscent of Wave). It's a cool product though, and I still (disclaimer: an ex-Dropboxer) use Dropbox Paper for lots of stuff (especially long form writing and research).

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

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Post by hparadiz »

temp8964 wrote: post #40
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox always feels like it peaked early and has steadily gotten worse as they try to add more and more features to it. > I feel like they are missing the mark when it comes to marketing to consumers here. I get the impression they're relying on name recognition and first mover advantage to keep the simple users flowing in, while all of the extra features and GUI fluff are built out to attract some other audience th…

My impression is that they totally gave up the customer market and focused on the business market long ago. So I gave up on them too.

If they were smart they would use their customer market as a loss lead. Years ago I'd use Dropbox for work because it was so easy to make a new folder and add some emails to it. Now a lot of people don't even have the client installed.

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

#64

Post by LeonB »

gumby wrote: post #58
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…

Are you on windows? Because I tried OneDrive and found it quite slow and a bit flakey when I tried it a few years ago on my Mac: it would get confused about sync state and just stop syncing (much better than losing data!) until I exited and restarted the app. Also it would silently refuse to sync some files which eventually I realised were not valid windows filenames though they were perfectly fine under Unix. Has it…

Dropbox fails to sync some files that have valid names in Windows.

Unicode is hard.

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

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Post by Kimitri »

burnte wrote: post #21
Spooky23 wrote: post #15

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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.

I hate OneDrive, and I don't even USE it. I hate it because my corporate users taht use it have a constant stream of issues with it. It fails to sync constantly, the agent fails to load properly, or needs to be logged in again for some reason, etc. It's a never ending stream of failures with the heaviest users.

Yup. That’s my experience, too. Also, on macOS the client UI is horrible. It’s slow and I’ve yet to find a way to open local files that it displays in the list of recently synced files.

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

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Post by NoPicklez »

I joined Dropbox in around 2010 and used it religiously through University to ensure all my work was being backed up as I worked on assignments. I used it for group projects and it was fantastic, at the time it was the most reliable cloud storage and I tried Microsoft Live Mesh, Live drive etc and found they were unreliable in syncing changes to edited files. Dropbox was flawless.

I then shifted into using it to also back up my photos from my mobile and camera, however my photo storage started to grow and this year I switched to Google Drive & Photos for much much less than Dropbox was offering per month. I think 100GB of Google Drive & Photos is $25.99 per year opposed to $184 per year for 1TB with DropBox. I don't need 1TB but 100GB is perfect compared to 10GB with Dropbox (that I had).

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

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Post by maccam94 »

cycomanic wrote: post #61
OnlyLys wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. Wait a second. Did they? My Dropbox client is currently working on my Arch system.

At some point they build in a filesystem check and stopped running on anything but ext4 (or btrfs?). IIRC they were constantly giving some notification as well. It didn't really make sense either and I know several people moved away from Dropbox because they were using xfs. I'm using pCloud with their lifetime 1TB plan.

They relaxed that constraint within a year of that announcement, it supports most filesystems that support xattrs now.

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

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Post by cerved »

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…

Dropbox at least has a Linux client and unlike OneDrive didn't delete all data because some plan expired. The problem is Dropbox is too expensive by comparison.

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

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Post by cerved »

LeonB wrote: post #64
gumby wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on windows? Because I tried OneDrive and found it quite slow and a bit flakey when I tried it a few years ago on my Mac: it would get confused about sync state and just stop syncing (much better than losing data!) until I exited and restarted the app. Also it would silently refuse to sync some files which eventually I realised were not valid windows filenames though they were perfectly fine under Unix. Has it…

Dropbox fails to sync some files that have valid names in Windows. Unicode is hard.

ASCII on the other hand is easy
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