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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 bayindirh »

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…

I use all of them (Google, OneDrive, Dropbox) due to various needs, but Dropbox is my primary account too.

I've found that inSync is a wonderful client for GoogleDrive and OneDrive for all major platforms. It has some nice features like out of tree syncing (sync a cloud folder to anywhere on the filesystem and keep it synced), and .gitignore like ignore syntax.

I'd recommend it heavily. It's a one-time-payment application with no limitations.

They've added dropbox support recently.

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

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Post by sylens »

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…

I would say my primary device is a Windows desktop for the storage but I also use it to sync to a Macbook Air.

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

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Post by JamesAdir »

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…

I had very good and reliable experience with Box.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

tome wrote: post #88
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…

Does anyone understand how OneDrive and Dropbox can be so cheap compared to S3? - 2 TB on Dropbox is £7.99 / month - 1 TB OneDrive is £59.99 / year - 1 TB on S3 is $23.99 / month How can Dropbox and OneDrive be cheaper than S3 at all , let alone after providing value add on top? Is it something to do with lower reliability and availability guarantees? Is it possible to buy direct access to their underlying storage? h…

For a personal product with so few size options, most of the capacity won't be used.

Glacier is worth noting as a comparison point, $4 or $1 per TB per month with more limits.

Backblaze said a couple years ago their cost to provide a low-redundancy TB per month was a bit over $3.

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

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Post by techpression »

stirlo wrote: post #35
lancesells wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has the same kind of gap with iCloud.

This is one of the most frustrating things about being invested in the Apple ecosystem. I've hit the 200gb limit and I'll be damned if I'll pay 330% more for storage that I don't need. Instead I'm deleting my oldest photos from iCloud and moving them over to OneDrive.

I use Apple One (family) and can add storage on top of it. It’s not very many tiers, but 50GiB, 200GiB and 2TiB. Which puts storage at 250, 400 and 2200 in total. Adding 2TiB is 10 dollars a month (on top of the one subscription) which is cheap comparatively to what it used to cost (iirc). Apple one of course only makes sense if you use other Apple services (I use music and tv+ so for me it’s a win win)

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

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Post by austhrow743 »

bayindirh wrote: post #121
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…

I use all of them (Google, OneDrive, Dropbox) due to various needs, but Dropbox is my primary account too. I've found that inSync is a wonderful client for GoogleDrive and OneDrive for all major platforms. It has some nice features like out of tree syncing (sync a cloud folder to anywhere on the filesystem and keep it synced), and .gitignore like ignore syntax. I'd recommend it heavily. It's a one-time-payment applic…

Is it on top of their respective clients or instead of?

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

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Post by bayindirh »

austhrow743 wrote: post #128
bayindirh wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use all of them (Google, OneDrive, Dropbox) due to various needs, but Dropbox is my primary account too. I've found that inSync is a wonderful client for GoogleDrive and OneDrive for all major platforms. It has some nice features like out of tree syncing (sync a cloud folder to anywhere on the filesystem and keep it synced), and .gitignore like ignore syntax. I'd recommend it heavily. It's a one-time-payment applic…

Is it on top of their respective clients or instead of?

Instead. InSync is a standalone application.

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

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Post by Joeri »

rbut wrote: post #114

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/

I use syncthing. Open source peer to peer folder sync. There is no cloud copy, but for me this is a feature, and the rare times I want to share a file with someone else I manually upload it to cloud storage (onedrive or gdrive).

https://syncthing.net/

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