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Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by Bargs »

josteink wrote: post #170
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 stopped using Dropbox ... and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. For a somewhat less platform-independent definition of better. Neither of those has Linux-clients, which for some people is a no-go. Which means I'll stick to Dropbox for a good while more.

I've been using Insync as my Google Drive client on linux, and it seems to work ok.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by cowabunga »

ChrisPebble wrote: post #80
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 curio…

I had all sorts of sync problems with OneDrive so I canned it. I now keep a central SVN repository with all my stuff in it.

I use svn because TortoiseSVN tooling allows diff/merge of documents, it is centralised so there is a single source of truth and it works over WevDAV/http so i can access it on my mobile device if need be (I avoid this where possible and just use it as a tether).

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by katbyte »

ChrisPebble wrote: post #80
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 curio…

it depends if your talking about one drive for business or personal.

OneDrive for business is built on top of SharePoint and is well known to have a multitude of limitations and issues and I would never recommend anyone use it.

Onedrive personal I hear is much more reliable but I've not had any personal experience with it.

I use Google drive and have found it to be very reliable, when i have the odd sync issue (fails to sync 1-5 files out of 3000 files/150gb) i just click retry and successfully uploads them.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by katbyte »

VLM wrote: post #79
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/

I hear insync has a decent Google drive client for Linux.

Not free but its pretty cheap

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by kaydo_com_au »

josteink wrote: post #170
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 stopped using Dropbox ... and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. For a somewhat less platform-independent definition of better. Neither of those has Linux-clients, which for some people is a no-go. Which means I'll stick to Dropbox for a good while more.

you can use their web version for platform independent needs.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by IDrive »

Hey Folks. Thomas from IDrive. Just wanted to point out that we offer private key encryption to our users. That means no one, not even Condoleezza Rice, can access your data except you.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by xs »

IDrive wrote: post #177

Hey Folks. Thomas from IDrive. Just wanted to point out that we offer private key encryption to our users. That means no one, not even Condoleezza Rice, can access your data except you.

But what happens if I lose my key? Is my data inaccessible forever after?

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by briandear »

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?.

That's so silly. Condi Rice is no worse than Zuckerberg or the Google people. If anyone thinks that Google or Facebook are somehow bastions of personal privacy, you're delusional. Condi Rice is actually an honorable person. I may disagree with her, but I don't have any doubts about her integrity -- contrasted with Google and Facebook.

As to your question about alternatives, I am starting to use Apple's iCloud Drive. Pretty cool so far.

I admittedly use Google products, but I am under no illusion that anything Google has, is likely fair game for the government.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by CPAhem »

ChrisPebble wrote: post #80
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 curio…

I used Google Drive extensively, but found the desktop client lacking reliability. I switched to Syncdocs [1] which syncs to Google Drive more robustly and is way faster. Google's storage pricing beats Dropbox, but their client software does not.

[1] http://syncdocs.com

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