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If I may just say: I have Google Drive, and am loving it. It's much cheaper than dropbox, as I pay only $5 and get 100GB of space. That's WAY more than I need,

If I may just say: I have Google Drive, and am loving it. It's much cheaper than dropbox, as I pay only $5 and get 100GB of space. That's WAY more than I need, but it syncs to all my devices. However, I will be the first to say that DropBox has some really great features that Google Drive lacks. For example, there is no public folder for Google Drive, like there is for Dropbox, and I cannot throttle the speed at which Google Drive syncs. With a new laptop transferring 20+GB of data, I unwittingly maxed out a 100mbit connection. For Dropbox users my question is: is Google Drive not worth it? Do the features offered by Dropbox make it more worthwhile than Google Drive, even if the raw storage costs more?

dalanmiller 14y ago
p.s. the Public folder is going away. http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-their-Public-folder-feature http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-...
- appliedluck 14y ago
  You can add Public folder functionality to any file or folder. See http://www.dropbox.com/help/167 http://www.dropbox.com/help/167
  - gergles 14y ago
    No, you can't, because that generates one-off links with gibberish in the URL and forces the disposition to "download" instead of just sending the file.
- iso-8859-1 14y ago
  no, it isn't. just has to be manually enabled. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#post-445432 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#...
rogerbinns 14y ago
Does Google Drive do LAN sync? Like any self respecting geek I have far too many computers and LAN sync keeps the bandwidth down, especially on freshly installed systems. I'm also primarily on Linux so Google Drive is useless to me. (Yes I know about grive.) My biggest peeve with Dropbox is that it doesn't know about multiple users. I have a personal paid account, as well as a separate team account for work. All of their software and sites work as though you only have one account, which is a huge pain. Separately they also screw over paid accounts who share folders. For example if two users each get a paid account for 50GB each and the first one shared 10GB of content with the second, then the second will only be able to use 40GB for their own files. So there will only be a total of 90GB of unique storage even though 100GB has been paid for. I understand (and agree) why they do this with free accounts, but their support kept refusing to see why it is an issue when both accounts are paid. The users issue and shared space issues mean I'm highly likely to move to Google once they support Linux.
dfischer 14y ago
My beef with Google Drive is that you can't symlink. I don't want to use my petty internal laptop hard drive for all the space. I need my external drive to be the "muscle." Google Drive won't let me sync that.

dalanmiller 14y ago

p.s. the Public folder is going away. http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-their-Public-folder-feature http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-...

appliedluck 14y ago
You can add Public folder functionality to any file or folder. See http://www.dropbox.com/help/167 http://www.dropbox.com/help/167
- gergles 14y ago
  No, you can't, because that generates one-off links with gibberish in the URL and forces the disposition to "download" instead of just sending the file.
iso-8859-1 14y ago
no, it isn't. just has to be manually enabled. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#post-445432 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#...

rogerbinns 14y ago

Does Google Drive do LAN sync? Like any self respecting geek I have far too many computers and LAN sync keeps the bandwidth down, especially on freshly installed systems. I'm also primarily on Linux so Google Drive is useless to me. (Yes I know about grive.) My biggest peeve with Dropbox is that it doesn't know about multiple users. I have a personal paid account, as well as a separate team account for work. All of their software and sites work as though you only have one account, which is a huge pain. Separately they also screw over paid accounts who share folders. For example if two users each get a paid account for 50GB each and the first one shared 10GB of content with the second, then the second will only be able to use 40GB for their own files. So there will only be a total of 90GB of unique storage even though 100GB has been paid for. I understand (and agree) why they do this with free accounts, but their support kept refusing to see why it is an issue when both accounts are paid. The users issue and shared space issues mean I'm highly likely to move to Google once they support Linux.

dfischer 14y ago

My beef with Google Drive is that you can't symlink. I don't want to use my petty internal laptop hard drive for all the space. I need my external drive to be the "muscle." Google Drive won't let me sync that.