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Try those companies' sync apps and you'll be back to Dropbox in a hot minute. I once tried to use the OneDrive app and it said my files would take 9 hours to ba
by anbop 7y ago
Try those companies' sync apps and you'll be back to Dropbox in a hot minute. I once tried to use the OneDrive app and it said my files would take 9 hours to back up, after an hour I gave up and tried Dropbox and it did it in an hour.
- julianz 7y agoNope. Dropbox never. ever. shuts up about me being out of space, emails me constantlyand displays Windows alerts whenever I log on. I have over a GB of space left on my account. Dropbox support says that's just how their system works so I'm off to Onedrive.
- michaelmrose 7y agoI suspect this is what is hoped but how are users actually using the service? As a mediocre backup service? File sharing with friends/family? Just to ship data conveniently between a bunch of devices that often share the same lan? The last use case can be served as well by syncthing which can sync unlimited TB of data between devices for $0 per month.
- anbop 7y agoI have a bunch of devices and like to have some files available on all of them. If I import photos to my desktop, they’re on my laptop and phone automatically. When I download PDFs and things I put them in Dropbox and can read them from the train next morning. Etc.
- philliphaydon 7y agoI have about 800gb of photos and raw photos, 3 desktops and 2 laptops, all backing up to OneDrive. Never ever had sync issues. The sync in Singapore to OneDrive is faster than DropBox. (Never had issues with DropBox tho)
- Dylan16807 7y agoOn the one hand OneDrive's client was awful years ago, haven't tried the current codebase. On the other hand Dropbox has caused me major problems as recently as a couple weeks ago, and manages to keep bogging down explorer itself, which is a much worse sin than slow initial sync.
- paulcarroty 7y agohttps://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/, works everywhere. You don't need to rely on 'company X app Y'.
- tallanvor 7y agoOneDrive works fine, and at least with Windows 10 you have the option to not download a file to the local machine until you actually need it. The business version used to be a huge mess, but even it works properly these days.
- asdff 7y agoYour first sync will be slow but after that onedrive is no different for me than dropbox on Mac OS. In fact I put all my files in the onedrive folder now. Integrates with office at work so I can save stuff to my personal laptop and phone pretty easily.
- xtracto 7y agoI don´t trust Microsoft with my data since they deleted all my mail history back when they took over the Hotmail.com.
- scarface74 7y agoThat was back in 1997.... I’m sure they aren’t using the same infrastructure. But that being said. My pictures and videos are automatically synced to: Google Drive: (free, resolution reduced theoretically) OneDrive BackBlaze: iPhone -> OneDrive -> BackBlaze.
- anbop 7y agoMicrosoft is perhaps the single company that has changed the most since 1997.