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Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by steindavidb »

Nition wrote: post #79
dabernathy89 wrote: post #60

If anyone from Dropbox is following along in this thread, can you explain why your most requested feature has been ignored for years? https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

Similarly: "Stop auto-inheriting new folders when using selective sync"[1] Another many-page thread from 2014. It's a big problem everywhere, but especially in business settings where there's often tons of data and anyone adding a new folder to Dropbox ends up syncing that new folder to everyone, whether they want anything to do with it or not. For personal use it sucks when you only want to sync a few folders to e.g…

this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by Digory »

joshuamcginnis wrote: post #43

Aside from iCloud, are there any other comparable alternatives to Dropbox?

Looking for Dropbox alternatives a few weeks ago, I found a consultant talking about Amazon as a competitor. Lo and behold, there’s an Amazon Workdocs buried at AWS.

It’s $5/mo per head, 1TB of storage, Mac and PC clients. It is rough around the edges (nomobile ecosystem, for example) but it seems to be more than adequate for syncing and some sharing.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by tinus_hn »

kayoone wrote: post #24
superdaniel wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed that too and that would definitely be a shame to have such a downgrade. I see how Dropbox is trying to diversify their prices based on features. But honestly, they should try to compete harder with providers like Apple and Google by providing different storage tiers. Apple has 2TB for the same $9.99/mo Dropbox provides 1TB. At this point Dropbox has me mostly because of inertia and their reliability.

not only Apple and Google, compared to Office365 for $99 per year which includes 1TB Onedrive + full Office for up to 5 users, i don't see how dropbox is worth it nowadays

At least for the OneDrive for Business offering, it’s easy for them to offer 1tb of storage since you’re never going to be able to be use it anyway, the sync client will crash and burn long before you get near that.

It is not in the same league as Dropbox.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#104

Post by i1856511 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #45
i1856511 wrote: post #41

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How did you provide payment information for iCloud for an account that wasn't your own? Or is your CC the one on file for your parents' account? I want to do the same thing for my own parents, but they have their own CC on file and AFAIK there's no way to supply a different one for a one-off purchase.

Family controls let you pay for someone else's storage (if they're on your family account). Buying then an iTunes gift card works as well. I prepay my $36/year in iCloud storage for all of our synced family photos by purchasing a gift card each year and then applying it to my iTunes account (instead of dinging my CC $3/month, which is just annoying).

Thank you. That's a good idea, and I will look into this. With this method, do you get an alert or email when your period is about to expire?

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by zuccs »

marcusjt wrote: post #69

Dropbox's "Smart Sync" sounds a lot like Google's "Drive File Stream" - https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__drive-fs-eap.html

Except Dropbox's Smart Sync has been available for a year already.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by seanieb »

Cookingboy wrote: post #39
arachnids wrote: post #38

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> They kind of lost the enterprise battle What is this based on? Not saying you're wrong, just looking for some evidence because that seems like a big claim.

Box and Microsoft dominate this space.

Box has a fraction of the seats Dropbox has in Enterprise. And when you add Dropbox consumer business, it's not even close. It's not clear wrt Drive.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by toomuchtodo »

i1856511 wrote: post #104
toomuchtodo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Family controls let you pay for someone else's storage (if they're on your family account). Buying then an iTunes gift card works as well. I prepay my $36/year in iCloud storage for all of our synced family photos by purchasing a gift card each year and then applying it to my iTunes account (instead of dinging my CC $3/month, which is just annoying).

Thank you. That's a good idea, and I will look into this. With this method, do you get an alert or email when your period is about to expire?

Apple sends me an email invoice every month for the storage. If I still have a credit, it says "stored credit" was applied. I put an annual reminder in Google Calendar to re-up the account balance with a gift card. If I forget, I get the American Express push notification that Apple charged my card.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by Elepsis »

tinus_hn wrote: post #103
kayoone wrote: post #24

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not only Apple and Google, compared to Office365 for $99 per year which includes 1TB Onedrive + full Office for up to 5 users, i don't see how dropbox is worth it nowadays

At least for the OneDrive for Business offering, it’s easy for them to offer 1tb of storage since you’re never going to be able to be use it anyway, the sync client will crash and burn long before you get near that. It is not in the same league as Dropbox.

The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts.

Also, it's likely that your past experience is with the old OneDrive for Business client. Last year the normal OneDrive client learned to sync OneDrive for Business data, and reliability and performance improved quite a bit.

(I worked on OneDrive until last summer, but I don't currently work at Microsoft.)

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by rangibaby »

rodgerd wrote: post #85
ferdbold wrote: post #78

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Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)

I'm sure not having clients on < 5% of the desktop market will cause Microsoft to become non-viable any day now.

I think it is this kind of attitude that made them miss the boat on mobile
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