Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

Re:Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Goog... by merlinscholz on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:06AM (#25789924)

I'm currently using onedrive for business (5$/month for 1tb, exchange and some other office goodies). I can highly recommend it, the privacy probably is not perfect with it being a Microsoft product after all. But the apps are superb and Android/iOS photo upload are a big plus.

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Re:Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Goog... by pedro2 on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:14AM (#25790010)

I am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1]

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...

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Re:Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Goog... by tallanvor on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:34AM (#25790193)

For the most part you should only be using .pst files for archiving, and those you should be able to sync in Outlook now.

For Exchange/Exchange Online, Outlook uses a .ost file that lives in AppData, which is not synced by OneDrive.

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Re:Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Goog... by merlinscholz on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:25AM (#25790120)

Since I currently do not own a Windows PC, I could only test using the web interface, Android and iOS app. All of them seem to work fine (~10MB .pst file), at least upload and download works and the hashsums match afterwards.

If you want to test this yourself, Onedrive has a free tier you could try.

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