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Has anybody tried syncing extisting folders via symlinks? Using Dropbox this is how I prefer to keep track of folders outside of the actually Dropbox folder. Google Drive just seems to ignore them. Not being able to include other folders would pretty much be a deal-breaker for me :( Any ideas?
It's really annoying that this use case wasn't thought about.
Is it just me or is this landing page pretty terribly designed (other than the video)? If I didn't already know what the product is, I would have no idea what I'm looking at. Is it a cyberlocker? Is it a Dropbox clone? Is it a social file editor? Heck, the landing page could almost just be describing the previous Google Docs functionality. The most innovative features, OCR and image recognition, are buried away with…
2MB file size limit???
The icon looks a bit like a recycling symbol. This is not a good metaphor for cloud storage. And no linux client.
No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)
microsoft, canonical, apple and now google; won't any one of the bigger tech players buy dropbox instead of developing something new?
DropBox works great for me on OSX, Windows, and a couple of Linux variants. I just can't see Microsoft, Canonical or Apple going out of their way to make things work well across platforms.
And Google Drive probably ties into Google+, which kills it for me.
A key differentiator here vs. Dropbox that I think people are overlooking is the fact that you can actually edit your files and collaborate easily. The transition to cloud-based apps is underway, and Dropbox -- in this respect -- is about to be stuck in the past.
I disagree and I have no affiliation with Dropbox or have any vested interest in their success. I just tend to think that the optimal cloud solution is as close to invisible as possible while letting people use whichever software tools they need. I don't really see any single entity owning the software and the storage because no single entity can own the collaboration tools. I view collaboration and syncing as two di…
For me, the fundamental problem with a service like Google Docs is that it is the ONLY way I can edit a document.
Whereas on my computer, I can open a .doc file (synced with Dropbox) in Word, TextEdit, OpenOffice, NeoOffice, or just about any other document editor. Doubly so for more platform-agnostic files (e.g. txt, jpg, pdf, etc).
(This is also why, unlike Steve Jobs, I hope files and the file system never die.)