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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by manigandham on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:20PM (#23199904)
Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like email/productivity apps.
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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by brnt on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:24AM (#23200931)
Actually, Resilio is not any slower than Dropbox. Syncthing is also faster thans any commercial offering I ever tried. Even Nextcloud sync is fast after an initial init.
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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by manigandham on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:18AM (#23201165)
What exactly are you referring to? Upload speed? That's not the issue.

Dropbox is the best at crawling a very complex directory structure with millions of files and diffing it efficiently with the server and other clients, and then transferring all the individual changes. Nothing else comes close. And their write-ups show the work involved:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-en...

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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by brnt on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:33AM (#23201228)
Indexing. Dropbox is slower than Resilio in my experience, and for shares with 100k-1M files, many small.

But also throughput is good.

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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by fireattack on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:37PM (#23200001)
Can confirm. I have to move all my node projects to Dropbox for this particular reason.
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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by cerved on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:12AM (#23201131)
Are you putting `node_modules` in cloud storage?
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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by fireattack on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:42AM (#23201279)
Yes. I knew you could use git and install modules on each end separately, but putting the whole thing in sync is just more convenient for some personal toy projects.
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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by duxup on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:37PM (#23200297)
Thanks for the tip!
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