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I used Dropbox for ages, until it came time to get serious about team accounts. Of course I had problems all the time with outsourced contractors using their p

by dools 11y ago

I used Dropbox for ages, until it came time to get serious about team accounts. Of course I had problems all the time with outsourced contractors using their personal Dropboxes for files. Stuff went missing etc. Team accounts are the solution -- however when your team involves up to 35 people (including software testers, VAs, project managers etc.) the per user cost is utterly insane monthly. Also you can't share folders that are sub-folders of shared folders which is a stupid restriction. The only reason I was using Dropbox and not Google Drive in the first place was because a) the web interface for Google Drive sucked 4 years ago and b) they didn't have a good link sharing feature. Now Google Drive kicks Dropbox's ass not only in terms of their web interface, but also with more flexible link sharing, better permissions control (ability to share sub-folders of a shared folder) AND no per user cost. And you can pay them $1.99/month for 100GB storage. OneDrive is a fucking debacle. I can't believe even one person uses Microsoft's cloud services, but it's all part of the cascading requirements that start with Excel and end with $5,000 servers being used to run archaic business management software written in VB ... so Microsoft may have a fair bit of the market, but it's by default. Their products stink to high heaven. Google Drive is the only logical choice for cloud storage now, they've already eaten Dropbox's lunch, we just have to wait for everyone to realise it.

gregpilling 11y ago
We also gave up on Dropbox and went to Google with the unlimited apps plan. It seemed easier, solved the problems, and reduced by one the number of systems we needed to understand. $120 per year per employee is easier to deal with, if it includes all the other Google Apps integration.
- _pmf_ 11y ago
  Just pray you will never need any kind of support.
com2kid 11y ago
I may be biased, I work at MS, but I've always loved OneDrive. It just works everywhere. On my laptops, tablets, and across both Windows Phone and Android. Google keeps doing UX things with photos and Google Drive that confuses my #1 usage scenario (finding photos). It also has some strange integration with Google Docs. It all sorta works but, again, the UX changes pretty damn frequently. OneDrive has reliably stuck with "here are a bunch of files."
- dools 11y ago
  Which OneDrive do you mean: OneDrive or OneDrive for business which is actually sharepoint online even though it's not called that, but there is another product called sharepoint online? I didn't really use OneDrive but had a bit of a bash at OneDrive for business... It has all the same basic features as Drive implemented in a slightly clunkier interface. Workarounds possible but really, why bother when Drive is better? Example: I wanted to show a list of thumbnails and allow someone to "flick through" them. Impossible. There was some app/plugin thing called ImageViewer that I had to get from some store that sort of worked a bit, install process was arcane, and it wasn't a folder it was in some weird menu. I can't talk about OneDrive really cos I never used it (I signed up before realising that OneDrive and OneDrive for business are different things.... Zapier has recipes for OneDrive but not OneDrive for business....) oh and not to mention the OneDrive app that ships with windows 8.1 is not OneDrive for business so if you are an office365 customer and you buy windows and try to use OneDrive, it won't log you in. It is an utter atrocity. An abomination. Also in office365 you can't add custom spf records, and when I finally got OneDrive installed on windows 2008 server it just wouldn't synch some files. I ended up installed Drive instead. Every foray I have into the world of Microsoft is fraught with nonsensical, arbitrary restrictions and inexplicable bugs.
  - com2kid 11y ago
    The OneDrive for Business is a recent rebranding thing. :( OneDrive the consumer product is awesome and fun. It is incredibly transparent, IMHO more so than other solutions out there on the market. (Admittedly the differences are minor, just the added touch here or there) Awhile back all the different consumer cloud storage providers kept one-upping each other on storage capacity, so I am sitting at some stupid high amount of GB for my OneDrive account.

by dools 11y ago

gregpilling 11y ago

We also gave up on Dropbox and went to Google with the unlimited apps plan. It seemed easier, solved the problems, and reduced by one the number of systems we needed to understand. $120 per year per employee is easier to deal with, if it includes all the other Google Apps integration.

_pmf_ 11y ago
Just pray you will never need any kind of support.

com2kid 11y ago

I may be biased, I work at MS, but I've always loved OneDrive. It just works everywhere. On my laptops, tablets, and across both Windows Phone and Android. Google keeps doing UX things with photos and Google Drive that confuses my #1 usage scenario (finding photos). It also has some strange integration with Google Docs. It all sorta works but, again, the UX changes pretty damn frequently. OneDrive has reliably stuck with "here are a bunch of files."

dools 11y ago
Which OneDrive do you mean: OneDrive or OneDrive for business which is actually sharepoint online even though it's not called that, but there is another product called sharepoint online? I didn't really use OneDrive but had a bit of a bash at OneDrive for business... It has all the same basic features as Drive implemented in a slightly clunkier interface. Workarounds possible but really, why bother when Drive is better? Example: I wanted to show a list of thumbnails and allow someone to "flick through" them. Impossible. There was some app/plugin thing called ImageViewer that I had to get from some store that sort of worked a bit, install process was arcane, and it wasn't a folder it was in some weird menu. I can't talk about OneDrive really cos I never used it (I signed up before realising that OneDrive and OneDrive for business are different things.... Zapier has recipes for OneDrive but not OneDrive for business....) oh and not to mention the OneDrive app that ships with windows 8.1 is not OneDrive for business so if you are an office365 customer and you buy windows and try to use OneDrive, it won't log you in. It is an utter atrocity. An abomination. Also in office365 you can't add custom spf records, and when I finally got OneDrive installed on windows 2008 server it just wouldn't synch some files. I ended up installed Drive instead. Every foray I have into the world of Microsoft is fraught with nonsensical, arbitrary restrictions and inexplicable bugs.
- com2kid 11y ago
  The OneDrive for Business is a recent rebranding thing. :( OneDrive the consumer product is awesome and fun. It is incredibly transparent, IMHO more so than other solutions out there on the market. (Admittedly the differences are minor, just the added touch here or there) Awhile back all the different consumer cloud storage providers kept one-upping each other on storage capacity, so I am sitting at some stupid high amount of GB for my OneDrive account.