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Just putting this here so that the Dropbox employees who inevitably read this can be aware: I've used dropbox for 5+ years, and as a paid user at that. Today I

Just putting this here so that the Dropbox employees who inevitably read this can be aware: I've used dropbox for 5+ years, and as a paid user at that. Today I deleted dropbox because of the recent shenanigans and bad press as well as because there is a lot of high quality competition in the synced file storage space that I can turn to.

creshal 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what did you switch to?
- copperx 10y ago
  Not op, but SeaFile looks nice.
  - trextrex 10y ago
    With a brief look at the alternatives, Tresorit [1] looks quite nice with their encryption features. [1] https://tresorit.com https://tresorit.com
    - copperx 10y ago
      It doesn't look like you can install Tresorit on your own webserver.
  - raphman_ 10y ago
    it's also quite stable. We never had an issue in ~ 2 years with ~ 20 users.
  - compuguy 10y ago
    Nextcloud is decent as well.
Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
What solution did you turn to, if any?
- staticfish 10y ago
  Not parent, but Google Drive has always been great for me. It has much improved from the clunky offering that was the release version. the only trouble I've had was corporate proxies, but God knows what hackery makes Dropbox work in this case. Now you have the ability to selected nested folders to sync, it does everything I need, and the storage is shared with Gmail, Photos, etc.
  - danieldk 10y ago
    Unfortunately, Google Drive has quite serious issues for heavy users of file synchronization (the last time I tried it): * It does not do chunked syncing. Change one bit of a 5GB file, it gets resynced completely. * You cannot get a list of shared files/folders. You basically need to check sharing per file/folder by hand or write/use a Google Apps script (which is very slow). * It does not support LAN sync. When I share large directories with colleagues on Dropbox, sync is very quick, because the transfers are just over the local network. * The last time I tried, the Google Drive client regularly had problems syncing some files when syncing a very large set of files. (* There is no first-party client for Linux.)
ladzoppelin 10y ago
What service did you end up with? Do they offer full rollback if files get encrypted by ransomware?
azinman2 10y ago
My experience is that file sync is all about edge cases, and there are so, so many. I believe Dropbox is the only one that has solved most of them (a function of time, energy, and large user base). A colleague just had google drive not properly syncing for 2 weeks, and all of the sudden it started working except it overwrote a very active Sketch file with the two week old copy (and no duplicate "conflict" copy made as Dropbox does). Google around and you'll find many such stories across all services.
product50 10y ago
I would like to present a counter to this. I recently became a paid Dropbox user just because of the convenience I have experienced through the Finder integration. Another thing the OP hasn't mentioned is which service he/she will move to. Dropbox is by far the best file sharing/storage product I have used. I don't think about sharing/storing files anymore - all the tools and convenience Dropbox offers (and Finder integration is a big part of that) take care of this itself!

creshal 10y ago

Out of curiosity, what did you switch to?

copperx 10y ago
Not op, but SeaFile looks nice.
- trextrex 10y ago
  With a brief look at the alternatives, Tresorit [1] looks quite nice with their encryption features. [1] https://tresorit.com https://tresorit.com
  - copperx 10y ago
    It doesn't look like you can install Tresorit on your own webserver.
- raphman_ 10y ago
  it's also quite stable. We never had an issue in ~ 2 years with ~ 20 users.
- compuguy 10y ago
  Nextcloud is decent as well.

Mister_Snuggles 10y ago

What solution did you turn to, if any?

staticfish 10y ago
Not parent, but Google Drive has always been great for me. It has much improved from the clunky offering that was the release version. the only trouble I've had was corporate proxies, but God knows what hackery makes Dropbox work in this case. Now you have the ability to selected nested folders to sync, it does everything I need, and the storage is shared with Gmail, Photos, etc.
- danieldk 10y ago
  Unfortunately, Google Drive has quite serious issues for heavy users of file synchronization (the last time I tried it): * It does not do chunked syncing. Change one bit of a 5GB file, it gets resynced completely. * You cannot get a list of shared files/folders. You basically need to check sharing per file/folder by hand or write/use a Google Apps script (which is very slow). * It does not support LAN sync. When I share large directories with colleagues on Dropbox, sync is very quick, because the transfers are just over the local network. * The last time I tried, the Google Drive client regularly had problems syncing some files when syncing a very large set of files. (* There is no first-party client for Linux.)

ladzoppelin 10y ago

What service did you end up with? Do they offer full rollback if files get encrypted by ransomware?

azinman2 10y ago

My experience is that file sync is all about edge cases, and there are so, so many. I believe Dropbox is the only one that has solved most of them (a function of time, energy, and large user base). A colleague just had google drive not properly syncing for 2 weeks, and all of the sudden it started working except it overwrote a very active Sketch file with the two week old copy (and no duplicate "conflict" copy made as Dropbox does). Google around and you'll find many such stories across all services.

product50 10y ago

I would like to present a counter to this. I recently became a paid Dropbox user just because of the convenience I have experienced through the Finder integration. Another thing the OP hasn't mentioned is which service he/she will move to. Dropbox is by far the best file sharing/storage product I have used. I don't think about sharing/storing files anymore - all the tools and convenience Dropbox offers (and Finder integration is a big part of that) take care of this itself!