Google Drive is not "way better", especially years ago. It has it's own quirks. At the very least they've finally cleaned up the mess that was combining Drive Stream with Backup and Sync. I moved from Dropbox to Google because Google was a lot cheaper but reuploading all of my data to Drive was painful. Dropbox has the wonderful deduplicating feature that works across all users of DB so if you're doing stuff like keeping an archive of installers you've used its very likely someone already has them on DB and it won't have to upload the whole thing. Drive also still doesn't have block-level sync. So no, its not "way better".
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Dropbox for Mac is so much better when you uninstall it and use Maestral instead.
I was going to say the question of privacy is a joke as Dropbox is literally owned by a three letter agency, more or less, and is sending all your data there. But that pic is better than a 1000 words 🤣
But anyway - a lot of ppl won't mind. Just don't be too concerned about your privacy.
Thanks for the tip on Maestral, I never knew. But these days I use iCloud and Dropbox only with their browser version - I don't trust their client at all - sometimes it eats all CPU, it's full of bizarre features I don't need or want (in the menu), etc.
Correct. We use O365 and thus Onedrive at work! So I do have Onedrive on my iPhone too since I keep both numbers on my 13 Pro. Works a treat!
Dropbox isn’t as good as it used to be but no way iCloud is better.
I’m paying for iCloud Drive, Mega, Sync, Dropbox & OneDrive. iCloud is the worst of the lot. By far.
No one is perfect, I like how OneDrive works on Windows, unfortunately in macOS is not as good. Mega has a good potential, if they improve the selective sync I’ll stick with them.
I’m paying for iCloud Drive, Mega, Sync, Dropbox & OneDrive. iCloud is the worst of the lot. By far.
No one is perfect, I like how OneDrive works on Windows, unfortunately in macOS is not as good. Mega has a good potential, if they improve the selective sync I’ll stick with them.
Dropbox is quite expensive, especially for families, but there are some features that iCloud does not really have:
- way better sharing options with non-Apple users (in Europe there many of those)
- version history/ folder history (can save your ass in some situations)
- smart sync (can save lots of disk space, helps me to have big folders/files still accessible in Finder and not on some random external HDD somewhere)
- good file previews (in the browser, of all kinds of Office documents, videos etc.)
- file request / let others upload into your folder (without a Dropbox account) - this one is quite good when collecting photos from various people after holidays
I’m considering switching to Google Drive because of their better price model, but Google Drive does not have all of the features (e.g. file requests) and somehow I trust a dedicated and established file syncing service more than Google when it comes to privacy.
OneDrive has one annoyance that keeps me from using it - they do not accept special characters (like “/”). I know, it sounds small, but it is a major nuisance for me and I do not want to rename many of my files and folders.
- way better sharing options with non-Apple users (in Europe there many of those)
- version history/ folder history (can save your ass in some situations)
- smart sync (can save lots of disk space, helps me to have big folders/files still accessible in Finder and not on some random external HDD somewhere)
- good file previews (in the browser, of all kinds of Office documents, videos etc.)
- file request / let others upload into your folder (without a Dropbox account) - this one is quite good when collecting photos from various people after holidays
I’m considering switching to Google Drive because of their better price model, but Google Drive does not have all of the features (e.g. file requests) and somehow I trust a dedicated and established file syncing service more than Google when it comes to privacy.
OneDrive has one annoyance that keeps me from using it - they do not accept special characters (like “/”). I know, it sounds small, but it is a major nuisance for me and I do not want to rename many of my files and folders.
Dropbox is so bloody expensive!!
I use onedrive at the moment, moved from iCloud as iCloud proved to be just a syncing service, not cloud storage sadly 🤷🏻♂️
I use onedrive at the moment, moved from iCloud as iCloud proved to be just a syncing service, not cloud storage sadly 🤷🏻♂️
Eager to hear from anyone as soon as they get the Silicon version, although with all the DB hate here, I'm wondering if anyone is going to.
I just checked and found that I now have the Silicon version. Interesting notice at the top now:
Support for this desktop window will end on Jan 17, 2022. Don't worry-your content
is still safe with us. We're continuing to support a great desktop experience in
Finder and the menu bar. You can also save, view, share, and access all your files on
dropbox.com and from the latest iOS and Android apps.
Support for this desktop window will end on Jan 17, 2022. Don't worry-your content
is still safe with us. We're continuing to support a great desktop experience in
Finder and the menu bar. You can also save, view, share, and access all your files on
dropbox.com and from the latest iOS and Android apps.
I think it sounds like it means the Dropbox app itself. Not sure.
Don't know how to check memory footprint, but if you tell me, I'm happy to check.