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Dropbox is in your Office

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Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by Multics »

themartorana wrote: post #67
ceejayoz wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we not do the Reddit novelty accounts thing?

Why do you hate fun? Edit: Why does everyone hate fun?

They're just counter-reddit. Even though it's something a hacker would do. Ironic.

Bit of Office, bit of war-criminal-Dropbox. Top of HN. Awesome.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by wslh »

The managed file transfer sector is hot and there is no winner yet. Even a YC company called WireOver [1] is working in this space.

A little bit precient, my company developed a free Outlook add-on to send dropbox files as attachments [2] in 2012.

- [1] http://www.wireover.com/

- [2] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/05/23/integrating-dropbox-w...

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by rpedela »

carlmcqueen wrote: post #14

I think this is wonderful news. I'm really tired of having multiple cloud accounts for different types of media. Getting files between the different versions requires me stopping at a desktop to move to the desktop and then back up. At least this gets rid of one of those steps. Now I just wish there were a way to take xlsx's from dropbox on the iphone and send it to my work email without it coming as a shared link. I…

I am genuinely curious if you are unable to open any link or is the restriction specific to Dropbox? And what is the reason for this restriction?

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by eli »

lentil_soup wrote: post #68

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox? Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

I find that Google Drive just doesn't work as well. We routinely get files that are "unable to sync" but manually retrying them works. I've seen it happen on OS X and Windows. I think it just doesn't handle locked files as well. Dropbox "just works."

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Post by skizm »

lentil_soup wrote: post #68

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox? Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

Does google drive have syncing folders on all systems like dropbox where I can just drag and drop? windows, mac, linux, android, ios? I actually don't know, not being sarcastic or anything.

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Post by cstross »

lentil_soup wrote: post #68

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox? Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

Last time I looked at the Google Drive terms of service -- which was admittedly years ago (I ought to check again) -- they were basically unacceptable for me because Google were demanding a perpetual non-exclusive copyright license to everything I stored there which would have allowed for unlimited reproduction or use for any purpose Google felt like making of it. It looked like your standard boilerplate land-grab, and unfortunately it was incompatible with my business (which involves selling exclusive (but time and scope limited) licenses to use copyrighted materials I produce.)

Dropbox's copyright clause was much more tightly drawn and not incompatible with my business model.

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Post by VLM »

lentil_soup wrote: post #68

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox? Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

To the best of my knowledge, the only provider listed above with an official linux client is Dropbox. It works for me.

Google Drive has a very unofficial yet supposedly usable 3rd party client at http://www.lbreda.com/grive/

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by ChrisPebble »

lentil_soup wrote: post #68

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox? Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

Have you had any sync problems with OneDrive or Google Drive? After switching to OneDrive from Dropbox six months ago I've continuously had problems with OneDrive syncing correctly and resolving conflicts by silently dumping a copy of the file into the directory for me to sort out later. Worse it does this silently so I often don't know a sync conflict happened.

Trying out Zocalo now with better results but was curious if anyone else encountered this issue with OneDrive or if my experience was unique.

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