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Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ptman »

komali2 wrote: post #8
brightball wrote: post #7

I might sign up for this just for Smart sync. A great next step here would be to venture into the online document signing space (Ecosign, RightSignature, etc). You’ve got probably 70% of what you need for it here already with Showcase. EDIT: Tried to sign up but the linux client doesn't support Smart Sync yet. Support people tell me it's pending.

Doesn't google drive have a similar feature?

It does now, and OneDrive seems to also have similar functionality with the latest win10 update. But many people have bad experiences with the sync algorithm of Google Drive.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ulfw »

microtonal wrote: post #10

So they created a new Pro plan: https://www.dropbox.com/plans/individual?trigger=nr Recently, they renamed the old Pro plan to Plus. This sucks quite a bit for long-time users, since they are only adding new features (smart sync, full content search) to the new Pro plan.

Yes. It's the whole idea of upselling to a higher value plan. Upselling from a plan that frankly the majority of it's customers don't need already (who fills 1 TB? I bet many would prefer to have a 100MB, 200MB, 500MB plan for less). $20/month to sync files to the cloud?

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by CodeWriter23 »

Elepsis wrote: post #108
tinus_hn wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Did they remove the hard limit of 20,000 files per OneDrive? Because if not, one would need to average 50MB per file to fill the 1TB up.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by zitterbewegung »

tedmiston wrote: post #54
zitterbewegung wrote: post #21

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I got my Classic Dropbox account upped to around 300GB for life because I answered a question at a conference. I haven't exceeded it for the last seven years or so.

PyCon by chance?

No, Reflections projections at U of I.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by tinus_hn »

Elepsis wrote: post #108
tinus_hn wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

No, my experience is with the ‘modern’ client. It is less terrible than the old one but still unreliable.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ferdbold »

vanous wrote: post #83
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?)

What sync do you use on Linux then? I am moving over from the Goog to mega. Full Linux support, 50GB, TNO.

I use Dropbox, but I might switch to Mega in the near future. The better storage capacity and leaner UI speaks to me. I haven't had any issues with the sync client so far either, though I've only tried it on Windows.

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Post by rangibaby »

rodgerd wrote: post #119
rangibaby wrote: post #110

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

You mean the boat where I can get Office etc on Android and iOS?

In a way yes. If you told people 20 or 10 years ago that in 2017 Apple would be #1 company in the world and have the browser with the second most users (with the first NOT being IE) people would laugh at you.
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