[AccessD] DropBox alternatives

[Rocky Smolin]

Correction: the Google Drive cost is $3/mo for 200GB

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 6:39 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I use Google Drive. 10GB free. $3/mo. For 100GB.
>
> Dropbox, IIRC, was originally for sending files to big to attach to an
> email.
>
> So syncing files in the cloud line OneDrive of GoogleDrive might be an off
> label application?
>
> r
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> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 5:32 AM Gustav Brock via AccessD <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> vegne af John Colby
>> Sendt: 25. januar 2024 14:24
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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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