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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 nacs »

rogerbinns wrote: post #96

Dropbox having good Linux support is a big reason I use them personally and professionally (both paid). But geez do they mess other things up. For example you can only share top level folders. We have to share with various outside parties and that limitation leads to a very cluttered file structure. The solution for multiple accounts is beyond annoying. The correct way of doing it how google does it - you provide how…

> Dropbox having good Linux support is a big reason I use them personally

AeroFS (what I use), Bittorrent Sync and Syncthing (Golang, OSS) all support Linux (and Mac/Win) and are good alternatives.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by projectileboy »

ayrx wrote: post #54
projectileboy wrote: post #47

So I have the $20/month a plan, and my reward appears to be that I pay twice as much and still have 200GB...? Do I have to cancel and re-subscribe? Anyone from Dropbox out there..???

> Already a Pro user? Dropbox will update automatically in the next couple days. You don’t have to do a thing. Looks like you just have to wait a few days.

D'oh! Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry for the noise.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by Multics »

noir_lord wrote: post #104
jamesbritt wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. The support for Dropbox here is disheartening.

Disheartening to you . I like Dropbox, it solves a none trivial problem in a good way and I don't care that they hired Condoleeza Rice for their board. I'm not a American.

I'm guessing you're not Iraqi, either.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by nacs »

__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.

Reposting an earlier comment of mine:

> it's the only cloud system that works well on linux systems

AeroFS (what I use), Bittorrent Sync and Syncthing (Golang, OSS) all work well on Linux (and Mac/Win).

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by Multics »

oskarth wrote: post #114
Multics wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From Wikipedia[1]. 'In the summer of 2014, Sam Altman became president of Y Combinator. Y Combinator also announced a Board of Overseers: Brian Chesky, cofounder of AirBnB, Adora Cheung, cofounder of HomeJoy, Patrick Collison, cofounder of Stripe, Drew Houston, founder of DropBox, Jessica Livingston, David Rusenko, Emmett Shear, and Sam Altman, cofounder of Loopt.' Y Combinator, and by extension HN, is in cahoots wit…

This isn't a game of three generations of punishment. The problem is with Rice and her role at Dropbox, not everyone connected to Dropbox.

I would say Drew Houston, and investors in Dropbox are more specific than 'everyone connected to Dropbox'.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by chmars »

drdaeman wrote: post #60
chmars wrote: post #29

It is disappointing that Dropbox still does not offer any options for secure storage. Personally, you might be fine with unencrypted stories but at least for companies in Europe, having (all) your data with an American cloud provider without local encryption on your side is simply not a legal option … Dropbox is a great service, however, it would be even greater if I could use Dropbox for all my data and not only sel…

> Dropbox competitors with encryption like Spideroak and Wuala Unless one doesn't really cares about security and wants encryption for the sake of having encryption, there's no way their implementations could be considered sufficient. Without audit you're just taking their word for it — which is exactly as when you take Dropbox's word that they won't peek at your data (unencrypted or possibly encrypted but one can't…

It is not sufficient but it might be enough to fulfill compliance requirements. Yep, that is only cover your ass security but it is still better than no encryption at all … the glass is half full vs. the glass is half empty although we should of course aim for the full glass.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by squeaky-clean »

jamesbritt wrote: post #93
dabernathy89 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It almost funny that they would not even respect differing opinion on their hiring of Ms. Rice and graciously offer a refund to those offended by such a move. I'm not surprised at all that a company doesn't want to refund you because of a political disagreement you have with them.

I'm not surprised at all that a company doesn't want to refund you because of a political disagreement you have with them. What's important here is how they handled this. A company can issue a refund anytime it likes, the ToS notwithstanding. Those are rules they made up. Telling me that it is impossible to issue a refund is just lying. It's not impossible; it's very doable. If they (or any company) deliberately choo…

>What's important here is how they handled this. A company can issue a refund anytime it likes, the ToS notwithstanding. Those are rules they made up.

The customer service representative you spoke to did not make those rules up. Unless you were speaking to the CEO of Dropbox personally, then yes, there is nothing that person could do. There may not even be a function of their support system that allows refunds. How do you know how simple it is for a CSR to offer you a refund?

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by rsync »

Someone1234 wrote: post #119
rsync wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only there were a cloud storage provider that took a strong, substantive stand against government surveillance and supported true security and privacy for their users. As long as we're dreaming, wouldn't it be great if you could use this make-believe product with standard unix tools on the command line, and access over SSH ? I suppose a fanciful firm like this would offer a deep "HN readers" discount to anyone tha…

rsync.net aren't really competing with DropBox so I don't see the relevance. DropBox has multi-platform support on all major mobile and desktop platforms. They also have a GUI application that will "just work" for syncing your files off site. rsync.net is really UNIX only since the offering doesn't work particularly well when not combined with popular Linux/UNIX tools (e.g. rsync). On Windows you're left using FTP an…

Remember that "unix only" means all macs. That's significant and interesting (or at least, we think it is).

You are correct that there is no mobile presence at all ... except for every single android phone.

There is a "must be this tall to ride" bar at rsync.net and that's working very well for us and our customers.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by mbillie1 »

gnufied wrote: post #72
mbillie1 wrote: post #67

I switched to Copy since the Condoleeza Rice situation and I have had no problems whatsoever. I have the app running on a macbook pro, an imac and two android mobile devices. It's also about half the price that Dropbox charges. I recommend it.

Honest question, how good is their client? The Google Drive client on OSX appears to be bit shit and I am considering moving everything away to a new system.

Honest answer: it seems to be a bit slower than Dropbox, but it's still pretty good. I haven't had any issues yet (no lost files). They also offer the same auto-upload of your photos from your smartphone, which I am running on an Android device, and that works wonderfully as well. I'm a very satisfied customer.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by mbillie1 »

rikkus wrote: post #74
mbillie1 wrote: post #67

I switched to Copy since the Condoleeza Rice situation and I have had no problems whatsoever. I have the app running on a macbook pro, an imac and two android mobile devices. It's also about half the price that Dropbox charges. I recommend it.

Their max personal plan seems to be 500GB for $14.99/month. Dropbox Pro is now 1TB for £9.99/month.

Ah, I did not check the updated dropbox pricing. At the time, I was getting 250GB for $9.99/mo, and Dropbox was offering me 100GB for the same price iirc.
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