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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by nvarsj on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:34AM (#25763236)
What do you use as an alternative to Dropbox? I haven't found anything that works as well across multiple platforms. I really hate all the feature bloat in it, which I never use, and weird decisions like dropping non-ext4. But still, for basic file syncing it seems hard to beat.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by maccam94 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:43PM (#25770703)
Sadly Linux users are like 1% of the market, non-ext4 is even less (and I am a full-time Linux user and big ZFS fan). They actually restored support for several non-ext4 filesystems over a year ago[1].

1: https://hub.packtpub.com/dropbox-walks-back-its-own-decision...

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by apple4ever on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:26PM (#25768175)
OneDrive has been absolutely rock solid for me (even on a Mac)
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by CPAhem on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:36AM (#25772931)
Syncdocs has been working reliably for me for years. They seem to focus on the core file-syncing stuff, which works fast and reliably, rather than blingy features.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by itsnot2020 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:08AM (#25763865)
I'm very happy with Tresorit - https://tresorit.com
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by Tesl on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:54PM (#25771735)
I loved Tresorit but it's camera upload feature didn't transfer files correctly from my wife's iPhone - it left them corrupted and unopenable with no warnings or errors whatsoever.

Unfortunately because of that alone I dropped them completely. I'm using Dropbox now because I haven't found a better alternative for syncing between iPhone/Android/Windows/Linux.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by kyawzazaw on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:16AM (#25778137)
what things that you need synced
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by benhurmarcel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:57AM (#25764720)
It's quite expensive though
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by secfirstmd on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:42PM (#25767002)
Yeh true but as an other example Dropbox missed out on the privacy and end to end encryption market.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by raiyu on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:37AM (#25763280)
My use case maybe different from yours but GDrive has worked well for me.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by beached_whale on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:42AM (#25763373)
The others are generally not supported on Linux. Dropbox has a cli client here that mostly works. At least if we are talking Google/Microsoft. Or the companies are small enough to go under overnight and leave me in a lurch
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by toyg on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:18PM (#25765066)
If long-term is your game and you don't like the big boys, you should probably look into Syncthing. Being an open protocol, it will never go away.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by uniformlyrandom on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:23AM (#25764133)
Google drive unofficial client works pretty well for me on Linux.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by beached_whale on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:26PM (#25768816)
There is a difference between official and unofficial support. Also, Dropbox is big enough to be around for a while, but this is their product and if it goes south, so do they. I don't trust Google to maintain any product before rebranding, pushing the work to the users, or dropping the product. They have shown otherwise.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by benhurmarcel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:57AM (#25764728)
Insync works well for Google Drive on Linux.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by pedro2 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:37AM (#25772527)
It did. Recent versions add the suffix xml to files with xml contents, unfortunately.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by F00Fbug on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:55AM (#25763588)
Have a look at Syncthing.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by passthejoe on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:37AM (#25764344)
Syncthing is solid. Maybe a little too geeky for most, but for tech-minded people it can really work. I've had little issues here and there, but it definitely solves some problems for me.

I generally use Dropbox for personal files and Syncthing for business. It's a great setup to keep those things separate.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by aborsy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:38PM (#25767649)
Secure access over the internet is a limitation of self hosting.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by m-ee on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:29AM (#25764231)
Box seems to be taking some of the enterprise market share.