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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 manigandham »

gajjanag wrote: post #175
manigandham wrote: post #79

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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…

Maybe Dropbox's is the best out of a bunch of mediocre syncing solutions. However, I do wish to add that Dropbox struggles with scale: lots of small files slow down sync to a crawl and spin CPU at 100%. Concretely, I had a certain folder with 100,000+ small files for some research I was doing with a collaborator. It took my laptop 24 hours to sync this folder, and throughout my CPU was at 100% throughout. For compari…

Sure, but Rsync and Dropbox are very different. There's really no software option that handles that many small files well with the same features (realtime sync, folder moves, binary diffs, file history, etc).

Rsync is great for taking a snapshot and replicating it elsewhere, which is probably a better fit for research projects anyway.

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Post by bayindirh »

beardbound wrote: post #169
bayindirh wrote: post #121

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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…

I was an early user of insync (Linux and google seive) and had issues with it when they added one drive support. I tried it out when I was getting all of my stuff off of google a while back. I pay for office and one drive so if I could consolidate it would be nice.

I'm not that old, but I had no problems whatsoever with InSync on either OneDrive or Google Drive (on Linux). Recently they have changed their licensing model to pay once for unlimited accounts and their development is accelerated.

If you feel inclined, give it a try again.

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Post by dc3k »

This looks to be a nice alternative to the official app, which I mostly dislike due to its non-standard gigantic popup that appears when I click on it in the system tray. I only use Dropbox to store my 1password vault so I don't really care about any bandwidth concerns.

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Post by cerved »

lazide wrote: post #166
cerved wrote: post #75

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It really bothers me how hard it is to download all your photos

How so? If you use takeout it’s decently smooth. I have over a terabyte in G photos.

didn't know about Google takeout still I'd prefer if it was just accessibile from Drive

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Post by mastrsushi »

Macha wrote: post #177
gtirloni wrote: post #135

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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.

I suspect even combined, macOS is fourth after Windows, Android and iOS.

Regardless, they’re ignoring a massive demographic.

Besides gaming, when consumer software stops support for macOS, it doesn’t look good.

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

Salgat wrote: post #28
asaddhamani wrote: post #25

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They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?

This horrible obsession with exponential growth. It's not enough to maintain a core team of engineers and pass on those savings on the price in order to gain more customers.

> This horrible obsession with exponential growth

I don't know if I would call it horrible. Money makes the world turn. Capitalism and all that.

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Post by eropple »

djrogers wrote: post #173
eropple wrote: post #165

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It's distinctly not the easiest thing in the world, but on a Mac the emoji panel is "tap Fn" and on Windows it's Win-;. Also, tab completion.

The default keyboard shortcut for the emoji picker in macOS is Ctrl+Cmd+Space, Fn is not used…

You sure? On my M1 Air, I tap Fn and I get the emoji picker. I didn't configure this behavior.

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Post by mjcohen »

kccqzy wrote: post #103
SilverRed wrote: post #87

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The speed of Google photos is actually breathtaking. The fact that you can instantly lag free scroll through tens of thousands of images and it all just loads instantly is quite impressive imo. The problem with some of the competitors is they do not treat photos as its own thing separate from files. I think google did a great job understanding that photos are not just a folder of files but that they require their own…

A lot of people had that realization early on. Google had Picasa and Apple had iPhoto, both of which were pretty good photo management software even before the mobile revolution.

We still use Picasa wherever possible.

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Post by NoPicklez »

cerved wrote: post #75
NoPicklez wrote: post #66

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…

It really bothers me how hard it is to download all your photos

I find it quite easy, with Dropbox and Google Photos you just install the app and enable background sync. It's never let me down.

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Post by NoPicklez »

citizenkeen wrote: post #78
NoPicklez wrote: post #66

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…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Google Photos stores pictures in original size anymore.

They do offer both a space saving setting which changes the quality and an original size option.
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