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> I’m on a Mac and find that google drive’s Mac client is so unreliable as to be useless True. I used Dropbox for many years without issue and moved because o
by kcartlidge 4y ago
> I’m on a Mac and find that google drive’s Mac client is so unreliable as to be useless
True.
I used Dropbox for many years without issue and moved because of the cost and the issue a few years back with not allowing it on certain Linux file systems.
Went to Google Drive and performance was shocking in comparison. At the time (don't know about now) it also felt like they had a deliberate policy to avoid showing cumulative file/folder sizes, meaning it was easier to pay for more storage than to find out what took the space and clean it up.
Since then I've spent a few years using PCloud, which was almost as fast as DropBox and more reliable at syncing than Google. Then I lost the ability to connect the client on a Mac for a couple of days, had a deeper look, and noticed a few files had had silent collisions between changes on Mac and Windows (not at the same time) leaving multiple versions (names suffixed with the machine they came from).
So I left there and went to OneDrive. To be honest I've found it okay other than one issue on a Mac where if I delete a file for some reason then when it vanishes to the recycle bin it reappears in the OneDrive root on the laptop. delete-immediately gets around that.
I'm now at the point where I use OneDrive for convenience/reliability but despite the cost have been considering a return to DropBox as cloud syncing seems to be impossible for anyone else to do properly. Is it still as reliable as it used to be?
- gumby 4y agoI tried OneDrive for a while but it wouldn’t sync certain files due to characters in their names. The error message wouldn’t tell me which. But much better than google which just silently fails.