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What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.

by hjkl0 13d ago

Scaled 13d ago
Open source SyncThing
simongray 13d ago
Self-hosted Seafile + Tailscale works great for me.
NietTim 13d ago
If you only have ios and mac clients why not icloud?
LeoPanthera 13d ago
iCloud Drive is the obvious choice.
- haunter 13d ago
  Last I've tried iCloud Drive is not preserving file attributes especially if you want to use it cross OS between Mac and Windows. Dropbox does.
- fg137 13d ago
  Last time I checked, there was no file history, which basically meant it's useless to me.
- prodigycorp 13d ago
  iCloud Drive does not allow you to recover files if you put them into the trash and empty it by accident. I learned this the hardest of ways.
  - LeoPanthera 13d ago
    That seems... reasonable? You have to trash the files and empty the trash before you lose them. Isn't that what the trash is for?
    - prodigycorp 12d ago
      Issue is I accidentally used cmd+delete which deletes items immediately. And I’m so used to how Dropbox does it that it wasn’t my assumption. Accidentally lost a bunch of data that way, figured I’d spread the word.
ascorbic 13d ago
I heard you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
- microtonal 13d ago
  Brilliant :). Since this is currently going to woosh for younger visitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
  - simonebrunozzi 12d ago
    Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.
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NordStreamYacht 13d ago
Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS. Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.
shaunpud 13d ago
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- swat535 13d ago
  PCloud is another one I like. Been using it for a few years and am happy with it.
onel 13d ago
Self-host. NextCloud on a moose instance https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud 1 click install, daily backups, no need to manage anything
- rjh29 13d ago
  Dropbox is 2TB for the same price as your 40GB. Cool idea though.
- onel 13d ago
  Yeah, definitely not 1-to-1 comparison as moose has a VM underneath and you can run pretty much anything
- throwaway270925 13d ago
  9€/m for 40GB? Yeah no, thats a terrible suggestion! Just get yourself a Hetzner Storage Share for 4.29€/m with nextcloud managed for you and 1TB! https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
  - onel 13d ago
    That is a great offer if you're only looking for a nextcloud backup. If you also need an immich instance and some jellyfin, you need another machine. A single purpose service is always more efficient then a more generilized one

What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.

by hjkl0 13d ago

What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.

Scaled 13d ago

Open source SyncThing

simongray 13d ago

Self-hosted Seafile + Tailscale works great for me.

NietTim 13d ago

If you only have ios and mac clients why not icloud?

LeoPanthera 13d ago

iCloud Drive is the obvious choice.

haunter 13d ago
Last I've tried iCloud Drive is not preserving file attributes especially if you want to use it cross OS between Mac and Windows. Dropbox does.
fg137 13d ago
Last time I checked, there was no file history, which basically meant it's useless to me.
prodigycorp 13d ago
iCloud Drive does not allow you to recover files if you put them into the trash and empty it by accident. I learned this the hardest of ways.
- LeoPanthera 13d ago
  That seems... reasonable? You have to trash the files and empty the trash before you lose them. Isn't that what the trash is for?
  - prodigycorp 12d ago
    Issue is I accidentally used cmd+delete which deletes items immediately. And I’m so used to how Dropbox does it that it wasn’t my assumption. Accidentally lost a bunch of data that way, figured I’d spread the word.

ascorbic 13d ago

I heard you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

microtonal 13d ago
Brilliant :). Since this is currently going to woosh for younger visitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- simonebrunozzi 12d ago
  Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.

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NordStreamYacht 13d ago

Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS. Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.

shaunpud 13d ago

Filen

swat535 13d ago
PCloud is another one I like. Been using it for a few years and am happy with it.

onel 13d ago

Self-host. NextCloud on a moose instance https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud 1 click install, daily backups, no need to manage anything

rjh29 13d ago
Dropbox is 2TB for the same price as your 40GB. Cool idea though.
onel 13d ago
Yeah, definitely not 1-to-1 comparison as moose has a VM underneath and you can run pretty much anything
throwaway270925 13d ago
9€/m for 40GB? Yeah no, thats a terrible suggestion! Just get yourself a Hetzner Storage Share for 4.29€/m with nextcloud managed for you and 1TB! https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
- onel 13d ago
  That is a great offer if you're only looking for a nextcloud backup. If you also need an immich instance and some jellyfin, you need another machine. A single purpose service is always more efficient then a more generilized one