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What do you use as an alternative to Dropbox? I haven't found anything that works as well across multiple platforms. I really hate all the feature bloat in it,
by nvarsj 6y ago
What do you use as an alternative to Dropbox? I haven't found anything that works as well across multiple platforms. I really hate all the feature bloat in it, which I never use, and weird decisions like dropping non-ext4. But still, for basic file syncing it seems hard to beat.
- raiyu 6y agoMy use case maybe different from yours but GDrive has worked well for me.
- beached_whale 6y agoThe others are generally not supported on Linux. Dropbox has a cli client here that mostly works. At least if we are talking Google/Microsoft. Or the companies are small enough to go under overnight and leave me in a lurch
- uniformlyrandom 6y agoGoogle drive unofficial client works pretty well for me on Linux.
- beached_whale 6y agoThere is a difference between official and unofficial support. Also, Dropbox is big enough to be around for a while, but this is their product and if it goes south, so do they. I don't trust Google to maintain any product before rebranding, pushing the work to the users, or dropping the product. They have shown otherwise.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoInsync works well for Google Drive on Linux.
- pedro2 6y agoIt did. Recent versions add the suffix xml to files with xml contents, unfortunately.
- toyg 6y agoIf long-term is your game and you don't like the big boys, you should probably look into Syncthing. Being an open protocol, it will never go away.
- F00Fbug 6y agoHave a look at Syncthing.
- passthejoe 6y agoSyncthing is solid. Maybe a little too geeky for most, but for tech-minded people it can really work. I've had little issues here and there, but it definitely solves some problems for me. I generally use Dropbox for personal files and Syncthing for business. It's a great setup to keep those things separate.
- aborsy 6y agoSecure access over the internet is a limitation of self hosting.
- itsnot2020 6y agoI'm very happy with Tresorit - https://tresorit.com https://tresorit.com
- benhurmarcel 6y agoIt's quite expensive though
- secfirstmd 6y agoYeh true but as an other example Dropbox missed out on the privacy and end to end encryption market.
- Tesl 6y agoI loved Tresorit but it's camera upload feature didn't transfer files correctly from my wife's iPhone - it left them corrupted and unopenable with no warnings or errors whatsoever. Unfortunately because of that alone I dropped them completely. I'm using Dropbox now because I haven't found a better alternative for syncing between iPhone/Android/Windows/Linux.
- kyawzazaw 6y agowhat things that you need synced
- m-ee 6y agoBox seems to be taking some of the enterprise market share.
- apple4ever 6y agoOneDrive has been absolutely rock solid for me (even on a Mac)
- maccam94 6y agoSadly Linux users are like 1% of the market, non-ext4 is even less (and I am a full-time Linux user and big ZFS fan). They actually restored support for several non-ext4 filesystems over a year ago[1]. 1: https://hub.packtpub.com/dropbox-walks-back-its-own-decision-brings-back-support-for-zfs-xfs-btrfs-and-ecryptfs-on-linux/ https://hub.packtpub.com/dropbox-walks-back-its-own-decision...
- CPAhem 6y agoSyncdocs has been working reliably for me for years. They seem to focus on the core file-syncing stuff, which works fast and reliably, rather than blingy features.