[AccessD] DropBox alternatives

[jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk]

Yes - slow upload is a pain 
I used to use Spideroak that encrypted on your PC, and only uploaded changed
blocks.
Not sure what they are offering, and at what cost.

Onedrive 
5GB with windows 10, 11 etc.
1TB for each 365 user - Family option gives 6 users  so 6TB 
and, compared to using USB storage - consider that the equivalent of 2 x 6TB
drives, with a 3 year life ( maybe more, but that's your data  backup!)
One drive app is a pain unless you set it up to not synchronise the store in
totality with the userid 
if you do, it creates a folder under the /user/id/ area with a link to every
file on the onedrive

Delete an entry from the /user/id/ folder and the onedrive copy goes, as does
the Sync'd copies !
Thanks for the defaults MS !

Also thanks for not showing much of the folder or filenames through the Edge
based browser access/management facility.

Broke the link ( an option available after it sets up all the linked entries -
many hours on I7 system at 100Gb/sec+)
Uninstalled the App

If using family mode to manage the family's systems  have a different ID for
doing that so it is not merged into your own personal environment.
And consider the effect on the MFT, and the effect of that expansion on file
(name) searches such as File Explorer and the associated API's do.

I understand the "Business" (pay MS for it)  version of the App is much better 

JimB

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Hi John

I guess you already know: OneDrive.

It works. Indeed, it can be set to only _list_ large files, thus these don't
download before needed.
For a free account, you have some GB diskspace. If paid, 1 TB or more.

/gustav

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John Colby
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Emne: [AccessD] DropBox alternatives

I apologize for using the group as a sounding board but we have a huge pool of
experience.

My use case is two different laptops, both mine.  Both have DropBox on them.  I
want to be able to use one machine while on the road and the other machine while
at home.  It just rarely works as expected.  Half the time the files aren't
synced.  Some files sync, others never sync (large TrueCrypt container files).

I started using DropBox years ago in an attempt to use its 'partial sync'
to speed up opening and updating large files.  DropBox claims to be able to
figure out which specific blocks of a file have changed and update exactly and
only those blocks, speeding up saving a large file.  The whole file no longer
needs to be uploaded (in theory).  The issue of course is that updating a 100 mb
file over a home internet with a mbit or two or ten upload speed takes minutes,
or more.  Thus DropBox 'partial update' (which doesn't appear to work)

AFAICT that has never worked correctly and in most other metrics, drop box has
been a constant PITA.  The UI is horrendous.  The locations on two computers
don't match so, for example (and I do want this) opening a database with a
linked BE doesn't work correctly since the 'path' to the BE is different on the
two machines even though the BE is right there in the same directory as the FE.
And I have been unable to figure out how to uninstall DropBox on one machine and
completely reinstall it, specifying a location on my D: drive (for example) .
DropBox seems to feel that it knows best where to place the local storage.

Anyway, I am about to move on and try to use something else.  Any
recommendations?



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