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Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by __xtrimsky »

of wrote: post #2

lol who cares?

I do care about dropbox, it's the only cloud system that works well on linux systems . It used to be overpriced but now the pricing is good. Also Google Drive is terrible on Windows if like me you have a lot of files. One drive is limited to 2GB of file size.

I have yet to find a great alternative to it.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

#13

Post by zzleeper »

PankajGhosh wrote: post #10

I do not have a need of 1TB of space, just 100GB would do. It would be great if they provided a tier of 100GB plan (just like Google Drive)

No one (almost) needs 1TB... the way they can afford it is they expect most people to use at most a few hundred GB, but with the peace of mind that they could store more

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

zzleeper wrote: post #13
PankajGhosh wrote: post #10

I do not have a need of 1TB of space, just 100GB would do. It would be great if they provided a tier of 100GB plan (just like Google Drive)

No one (almost) needs 1TB... the way they can afford it is they expect most people to use at most a few hundred GB, but with the peace of mind that they could store more

You'd be surprised how fast design artifacts can add up. 25 draft copies of a 12-layer image can be a GB, and that's one image in one project.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

#15

Post by __xtrimsky »

zzleeper wrote: post #13
PankajGhosh wrote: post #10

I do not have a need of 1TB of space, just 100GB would do. It would be great if they provided a tier of 100GB plan (just like Google Drive)

No one (almost) needs 1TB... the way they can afford it is they expect most people to use at most a few hundred GB, but with the peace of mind that they could store more

I don't need 1TB, but I need more than 100GB.

If Google Drive offered 500GB I would go with them, for now I'll stay with Dropbox as it's the same pricing (Dropbox's client is better quality).

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

#18

Post by micheljansen »

jonnynezbo wrote: post #16
zzleeper wrote: post #11

"You now have 1,045.GB .." Quite good news! I now just need a way to exclude some files (.aux .tmp) and will be set!

Yea, we need a .dbignore, or something of the sort.

You mean like this? http://konolige.com/dbignore/

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

#19

Post by CalRobert »

__xtrimsky wrote: post #12
of wrote: post #2

lol who cares?

I do care about dropbox, it's the only cloud system that works well on linux systems . It used to be overpriced but now the pricing is good. Also Google Drive is terrible on Windows if like me you have a lot of files. One drive is limited to 2GB of file size. I have yet to find a great alternative to it.

Owncloud is great, and avoids the moral complexities of contributing to a board that includes at least one endorser of torture and warrantless surveillance.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

#20

Post by jrnkntl »

spindritf wrote: post #17

A comment on the site points it out already but they charge European users more now (€9.99 which is $13.17 currently). Is there an external reason? Does that include VAT? Did they get a datacentre somewhere in the EU?

Yeah, what's up with that? Apple-esque practices for digital goods. I just used a VPN to purchase the $ plan instead.
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