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

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Post by gullevek »

Dropbox is still the best

OneDrive (I use it at work): if one file fails, all files stop syncing. It sometimes tries to sync some files from teams and just never finishes. It also has very strange file name restrictions. if the file name is bad (eg whitespace at the end) it will just stop syncing anything. Still better than Google Drive as it is a standard folder. if it crashes your data is HERE.

google drive (I used that at work): on MacOS is it is utter crap as it is not a folder but a mounted thing. So it is not "there" when you login. So every application that tries to open a file on google drive just fails. Because it is not an apple FS a lot of apple apps will complain. MySQL Workbench will often fail to save and often destroy files. If not running it is not mounted and none of your files are here. you also can't copy out google files (writer, spreadsheet, etc). For whatever reason.

iCloud: some strange folder nested hundred levels deep. I only use it because of some ios stuff.

So yeah, Dropbox might be pricey but through all the years it really worked very well for me. (And I really don't care about any of the other services they have)

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

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Post by renewiltord »

toxik wrote: post #99
renewiltord wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the history of the Dropbox YC announcement on HN, surely you must be joking with #1. It is possibly the most famous HN incident of all time.

It's a word-for-word copy of that glorious comment.

Huh, I misremembered that one as being more complex for some reason. Now I look like an idiot HAHA

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

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Post by simonh »

gullevek wrote: post #111

Dropbox is still the best OneDrive (I use it at work): if one file fails, all files stop syncing. It sometimes tries to sync some files from teams and just never finishes. It also has very strange file name restrictions. if the file name is bad (eg whitespace at the end) it will just stop syncing anything. Still better than Google Drive as it is a standard folder. if it crashes your data is HERE. google drive (I used…

>google drive (I used that at work): on MacOS is it is utter crap as it is not a folder but a mounted thing.

That's Google File Stream. There is also a client called Backup and Sync that works like Dropbox, I'm using it now. These are apparently being merged into a single client to be called Google Drive Desktop.

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

#114

Post by rbut »

If you're looking for an open-source self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, I've found Seafile to be flawless. Seadrive is also nice if you want to access your data as if it were a network drive.

* Not affiliated with seafile, just really like their software.

https://www.seafile.com/

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

#115

Post by secondaryacct »

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…

Yeah I found it genius to have so much space anywhere I was for basically free when I was a poor student.

But then I got richer and with a 40TB NAS, a few $ per year hostname, an ip refresh script for the registrar and a vpn server included in the nas, well I have a monster dropbox equivalent and now that I have 5G, I dont even understand anymore why people dont just do that. You lose the ability to access docs offline but then you have massive space online without having to share it with american people (Im in China). In terms of reliability, modern NASes are really good and I only ever lost stuff when I got caught in trying btrfs lol

And with the recent temptation to scan cloud stuff for dangerous data, I feel more at ease with the NAS solution.

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

skinkestek wrote: post #95
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my impression, they are removing useful features and adding unnecessary ones. Since I joined over a decade ago, they have removed an extremely useful Public folder with the capability to generate direct links, limited the number of devices, and added a ton of features I never wanted from them, like Paper.

> In my impression, they are removing useful features and adding unnecessary ones. Also they took away the extra storage I had gotten from various deals. Saved them 3.8 GB or something, lost them an unpaid sales representative and got them a few posts like this on the internet.

Well, my extra free storage is with me, currently I have ~14,83 GB.

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

#117

Post by TroisM »

toxik wrote: post #94

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations

I used to do that, but not anymore... why not use an E2E encrypted Element/Matrix channel instead?

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

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Post by solarkraft »

hannofcart wrote: post #107
canistel wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Love Syncthing. Use it extensively across my Linux-Android-Windows devices. Where I really miss it is on iOS (I have just one Apple device - an iPad) and can't find a reliable Syncthing implementation/wrapper on the App Store. That doesn't stop me using Syncthing though. I just use my iPad less. Which is a shame. I like the handwriting recognition it has. There's an app called Mobius Sync which promises Syncthing sup…

Thanks for teh suggestion. I was surprised to find out there don’t even seem to be efforts to get the binary running on jailboken devices (unfortunately my knowledge of iOS internals is too limited for that).

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

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Post by bayindirh »

TroisM wrote: post #117
toxik wrote: post #94

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations I used to do that, but not anymore... why not use an E2E encrypted Element/Matrix channel instead?

Because syncthing is much more simpler. :)

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

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Post by TroisM »

bayindirh wrote: post #119
TroisM wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations I used to do that, but not anymore... why not use an E2E encrypted Element/Matrix channel instead?

Because syncthing is much more simpler. :)

I also use Syncthing but Element allows me to share a channel with someone else more easily when I need to.
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