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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 planb »

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.

I‘m still at 52gb free Storage. But I just need 2. I’d even pay 2-3 bucks a month to get rid of the device limit. But I won’t pay for a terabyte I don’t need…

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

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Post by mejutoco »

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.

+1 Some years ago I tied keeping a "biggish" backup in Google Drive. I really tried. Left the computer syncing for a week, without any progress indicator (only something generic, like syncing). I the end I went with Dropbox. It took a few days, but I could see actual progress happening.

I do not know if this is still the case nowadays.

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

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Post by gtirloni »

jl6 wrote: post #96
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’m a happy Dropbox customer because I use all of the 2TB space, they have a Linux client, and their syncing works far better than Google Drive and OneDrive. I can do things like modify git repositories, add and delete thousands of files, have files open for editing, rearrange large folders… - all within the Dropbox folder - and Dropbox manages to sync it without any issue, whereas when I tried the other two, there w…

Dropbox has the best Linux client of all. That's the only reason I keep paying.

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

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Post by gtirloni »

rcarmo wrote: post #93
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 did exactly that. I work at Microsoft now, but two years before I joined I went through the same process but kept Dropbox for many years solely for Linux support. Then they botched that, so I moved my Linux/Mac working trees into SyncThing (since I only need local sync anyway).

How have they botched Linux support? It works flawlessly for me and GDrive/OneDrive don't even come close.

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

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Post by gtirloni »

mastrsushi wrote: post #55
NiekvdMaas wrote: post #52

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Maestral provides a universal binary on macOS, so it runs natively on arm64. The official Dropbox client is x64-only, so it needs to run in an emulation layer (Rosetta) on a M1. For something low-level as a file syncing service, that's very unfortunate. There are loads of request on the Dropbox forum to support arm64, but no sight of it being added anytime soon.

That either reads “we don’t have the resources to support our second largest OS platform” or there are too little users still using the native desktop client. Mind you, this is a company that went out of their way to port a Linux client in 2011. To see them hesitate with m1 is shocking

I bet M1 users aren't nowhere near "the second largest OS platform". Unless you're bundling x86 macOS users together. Just pointing out that it's not as critical (yet) as it might appear.

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

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Post by swiley »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #24
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 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…

This.

It used to be really great, you just have an "ender chest" folder that shows up on all your computers with a public folder that shows up on their web server. They screwed up the public folder pretty badly and I left after that.

Now we have syncthing anyway which is better anyway for a number of reasons and most people know git which works better on mobile devices.

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

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Post by scns »

renewiltord wrote: post #112
toxik wrote: post #99

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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

> Now I look like an idiot HAHA

I respectfully disagree. You got trolled and you can laugh about it, thats a win in my book.

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

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Post by scns »

manigandham wrote: post #79
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 still has the best syncing tech [1][2] which handles complex situations with lots of files and responds instantly. That alone is worth it if you need it. However the rest of the product is crap. Dropbox had a solid business with a "magic folder that syncs" but has been chasing new features and product lines with little success. Even the enterprise offering was far behind Box.com for years and now has tons of…

There is a plugin for Thunderbird thats integrates with box.com to upload huge attachments there and paste a generated download link into the mail.

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

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Post by slig »

renewiltord wrote: post #98
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…

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.

This one is pretty cool as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

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

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Post by matthewmacleod »

I really, really want to like Dropbox – but man it feels like they're trying as hard as possible to drive me away with the Mac client.

I honestly just want an app that sits there any syncs a folder of files to cloud storage for me. Add some settings and status information, keep the nice features like partial/"smart" sync—along with some shell integration so I can share stuff easily—and it would be absolutely great. I just want to give them some money in exchange for providing some useful services.

But it takes genuine effort to make a UI this unappealing. Why is it using it's own non-system font?? Why is the text blurry – in some places, and not in others? Why are all the checkbox icons broken? Why does it include a terrible file manager application??

Bah, I know I'm just yelling at clouds and the reasons are more complex. But I am definitely finding more and more apps that I've used for ages are just getting _actively worse_ for my use-cases and it's so frustrating.

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