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Re: Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background

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So, what is a good alternative to Dropbox that supports LAN sync, block-level uploads [1], revisions, and that most of my colleagues, friends and friends have or can set up? If you actually look at the competition, most of them do not have LAN sync or block sync (OneDrive, Google Drive), they do not have proper support for revisions (Resilio Sync), or are hard to set up for most people (Syncthing). [1] So that if I c…

Seafile works pretty well, they install a client a lot like the Dropbox client and sync away. And it is even mostly open source seafile.com https://github.com/haiwen/seafile

Why only "mostly"?

Re: Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background

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post #92
post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seafile works pretty well, they install a client a lot like the Dropbox client and sync away. And it is even mostly open source seafile.com https://github.com/haiwen/seafile

Why only "mostly"?

I believe that some of the `pro` or their custom hosted offering's features aren't necessary in the open source code base. But the majority of the functionality is
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