Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal
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As the title says, I am currently looking for alternatives for Dropbox. I've been a Dropbox customer for many years and quite happy about it except for one thing that I recently started checking for; the smart sync. Similar to the new OneDrive feature, where all files are on cloud, but only downloads when accessed on the computer. My Surface Pro is 256GB and would really like to keep the cloud storage usage minimal but get access to any file on demand. I checked Dropbox and found that I need to move from my current $8.25 / month to $16.58 /month. I get more features with this upgrade but I am only interested to get the "Smart Sync" feature.
Checked OneDrive personal which is $6.99/mo along with that i get MS Office for 1PC/Mac, also File On Demand as I needed. I would like to hear from your personal experience about OneDrive, is it worth the move?
Along with that, while searching similar topics, I found my own post from last year about sync.com!
(https://mangolassi.it/topic/11090/anyone-tried-sync/9)
https://www.sync.com/pricing-personal/ pricing is $96 /year with 2TB and similar features with end to end encryption, but as I mentioned on my post, with zero knowledge from the vendor, if I lose the password for some reason, I might lose the entire data, not sure if it is still the case. -
Nextcloud
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Was thinking about that as well, but not really sure if i want to spend time on maintaining that, maybe I need to look for the hosted options, any providers that you recommend? Also does it have the file on demand feature?
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@aaronstuder said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
Nextcloud
I wasn't aware that Nextcloud has a download on demand feature.
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@black3dynamite said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@aaronstuder said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
Nextcloud
I wasn't aware that Nextcloud has a download on demand feature.
Same here, @aaronstuder could you please confirm this?
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@ambarishrh I use OneDrive for personal use through my personal O365 subscription. It's like $99 a year, and the 1TB OneDrive space per person (up to 5 family members) is worth that by itself IMO.
Lots of new features now, it's getting so much better.
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@ambarishrh I use OneDrive for personal use through my personal O365 subscription. It's like $99 a year, and the 1TB OneDrive space per person (up to 5 family members) is worth that by itself IMO.
Lots of new features now, it's getting so much better.
Hows the sync speed and do you face any issues with Sync?
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@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@ambarishrh I use OneDrive for personal use through my personal O365 subscription. It's like $99 a year, and the 1TB OneDrive space per person (up to 5 family members) is worth that by itself IMO.
Lots of new features now, it's getting so much better.
Hows the sync speed and do you face any issues with Sync?
The speed is always (in my experience) a limitation of my connection speed... I've not seen it the other way around.
I haven't had any Sync issues over the past few years now.
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@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
As the title says, I am currently looking for alternatives for Dropbox. I've been a Dropbox customer for many years and quite happy about it except for one thing that I recently started checking for; the smart sync. Similar to the new OneDrive feature, where all files are on cloud, but only downloads when accessed on the computer. My Surface Pro is 256GB and would really like to keep the cloud storage usage minimal but get access to any file on demand. I checked Dropbox and found that I need to move from my current $8.25 / month to $16.58 /month. I get more features with this upgrade but I am only interested to get the "Smart Sync" feature.
Checked OneDrive personal which is $6.99/mo along with that i get MS Office for 1PC/Mac, also File On Demand as I needed. I would like to hear from your personal experience about OneDrive, is it worth the move?
Along with that, while searching similar topics, I found my own post from last year about sync.com!
(https://mangolassi.it/topic/11090/anyone-tried-sync/9)
https://www.sync.com/pricing-personal/ pricing is $96 /year with 2TB and similar features with end to end encryption, but as I mentioned on my post, with zero knowledge from the vendor, if I lose the password for some reason, I might lose the entire data, not sure if it is still the case.Just signed up for Sync.com free account for testing and looks like there are no online playback option for videos on sync. Dropbox supports a lot of file extensions to be viewed online.
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You might be better off staying with Dropbox. Especially since Dropbox is available on more platforms unlike OneDrive unless you are planning on staying with Windows/Mac only.
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I keep all family photos, videos, and personal documents there, and synced to an external hard drive... and i have selectively synced a few to my laptop.
On my phone, i download on demand, or just view them as they are.
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@black3dynamite said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
You might be better off staying with Dropbox. Especially since Dropbox is available on more platforms unlike OneDrive unless you are planning on staying with Windows/Mac only.
The right question is whether or not he's going to need to Sync to a device that is not supported with OneDrive. I haven't yet.
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@Ambarishrh Smart Sync as described is not a feature that the Nextcloud Desktop client has.
The Nextcloud iOS and Android apps do this.
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When I take photos and videos with my Android phone, they automatically sync to OneDrive.
Every so often, I'll delete them from my phone, then sort them out in OneDrive.
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@black3dynamite said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
You might be better off staying with Dropbox. Especially since Dropbox is available on more platforms unlike OneDrive unless you are planning on staying with Windows/Mac only.
The right question is whether or not he's going to need to Sync to a device that is not supported with OneDrive. I haven't yet.
As of now, my personal devices are Win & Mac. One day when Surface Pro is fully compatible with Fedora or similar, I might use dual boot and if all good will switch, but i dont see that happening anytime soon!
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@Ambarishrh Smart Sync as described is not a feature that the Nextcloud Desktop client has.
The Nextcloud iOS and Android apps do this.
Thanks for the update. My major reason to move off dropbox is this feature and need to pay double to get it on Dropbox
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
When I take photos and videos with my Android phone, they automatically sync to OneDrive.
Every so often, I'll delete them from my phone, then sort them out in OneDrive.
Nextcloud has a feature to auto-upload pictures from iOS and Android devices, but I have never used it yet. I should probably set that up and test it out.
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
When I take photos and videos with my Android phone, they automatically sync to OneDrive.
Every so often, I'll delete them from my phone, then sort them out in OneDrive.
I do the same with Google Drive too.
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@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@Ambarishrh Smart Sync as described is not a feature that the Nextcloud Desktop client has.
The Nextcloud iOS and Android apps do this.
Thanks for the update. My major reason to move off dropbox is this feature and need to pay double to get it on Dropbox
Aye, that is what you said in your initial post. So to answer your question, I do not know of another solution that does this that you are not already aware of.
