Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal
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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.
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I just got the new Samsung S9+ and with that I guess there is 100GB free account, let me test that out as well and see
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@black3dynamite said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@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.
Also, Office Lens is freaking awesome. It takes a pic of paper documents, and they automatically convert to a PDF and get sent to OneDrive. It's great to have that stuff available at any time.
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I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!
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@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!
I tried OneDrive for Business in the enterprise a few years ago. It had problems, but they were all due to a certain set of users who were trying to sync many hundreds of thousands of files... I assume now it's because of then sync limits.
Now that OneDrive for Business has gotten much better over the years, I'd be willing to try it again if I had a set value of the sync limits and that nobody would be over them.
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OneDrive personal works great, I'm using it as it's intended, though.
Business version would need some heavy testing again first.
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!
I tried OneDrive for Business in the enterprise a few years ago. It had problems, but they were all due to a certain set of users who were trying to sync many hundreds of thousands of files... I assume now it's because of then sync limits.
Now that OneDrive for Business has gotten much better over the years, I'd be willing to try it again if I had a set value of the sync limits and that nobody would be over them.
Could be a separate discussion, I am currently evaluating ODFB to use it for our users replacing their personal folders on their computers as an alternative for an end point backup solution. Just started testing it out from today!
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ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
Did they remove the sync limits? What exactly did they change that made the issues go away?
