So yeah, Dropbox might be pricey but through all the years it really worked very well for me.With more than 600 million users worldwide, Dropbox is, without a doubt, one of the most popular cloud storage providers. ICloud: some strange folder nested hundred levels deep. you also can't copy out google files (writer, spreadsheet, etc). If not running it is not mounted and none of your files are here. MySQL Workbench will often fail to save and often destroy files. Because it is not an apple FS a lot of apple apps will complain. So every application that tries to open a file on google drive just fails. Google drive (I used that at work): on MacOS is it is utter crap as it is not a folder but a mounted thing. Still better than Google Drive as it is a standard folder. if the file name is bad (eg whitespace at the end) it will just stop syncing anything. It also has very strange file name restrictions. It sometimes tries to sync some files from teams and just never finishes. OneDrive (I use it at work): if one file fails, all files stop syncing.

TBH I am still using Dropbox every day, getting around the device limit by sharing stuff with multiple free accounts. Before Dropbox I was using unison and tried every other sync product, but nothing came close. This is really a shame too: Dropbox is just the gold standard for sync. That would of course have introduced a market cap, but if 1% of everyone had ended up on a reasonably priced personal plan it would have been a roomy cap.Īs it was, Dropbox has grown into yet-another ms-office-in-the-sky and there is no way they will make it against their competitors who can burn the cash, and who are slowly catching up on sync technology. Seems to me that the correct strategy for Dropbox would have been to be super focused on the core product and on not hiring in too many people/taking in too much capital. Similar experience here: the paid options are way too expensive for private use, when none of the new features has any value to you.

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