I’ve been using Dropbox for years with difficult stuff, like Node projects with tens of thousands file. The sync works and it’s really quick.

- iCloud - simply does not work, trusting your files in here is a fools errand.

- Google Drive - They've change the name 6 times since I've started this comment, and each name changes requires a new download, and each download removes a feature I use. Need third party app for Linux.

- OneDrive - Not so bad, but need third party app for Linux.

I've tried many others like SyncThing (just terrible, people who tolerate this I give them my pity because it is not good software).

I wish Dropbox would just split of products into Dropbox Classic (A folder, that syncs!) and then this new fangled rubbish they keep building to diversify.

Maybe my use cases are too simple, but why did you find SyncThing a bad software? In my experience, understanding the setup was the difficult part, but that's to be expected when you're used to cloud providers managing that on their end. Apart from that, it doesn't work on iPhone or iPad, the syncs can take a couple of minutes, and that's all the cons I can think of.

The big pro for me is being able to sync files that an overzealous cloud provider might autosanitize without asking.

Regarding Google Drive on Linux, I've tried InSync and it worked so well with a combination of Dropbox+Google Drive+Google Workspaces that I bought the lifetime license. From time to time they do 50% offs, so it's even more attractive. Much better experience than the official Dropbox client.

Mobius Sync seems to do a reasonable job for me given the limitations its working under.

I have been using it non stop since it was available, and the best thing is that I've completely forgotten about it for years. It's happily churning in the background doing its job, updating itself automatically and not letting me worry about its existence, not a single notification window, and seldomly sending me emails about new services.

Google forsake linux, they already went through a client deprecation on mac, they bug me about getting permissions for the downloads folder they don't need, and it breaks sometimes I boot with an external drive connected, it's a chore to use their software.

I've tried to give OneDrive a chance several times but no more. Dropbox has been only reliable choice for three-four way sync for me.

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SharePoint syncs via OneDrive, but offers better categorisation and integration with Windows Explorer and Office (“sites”).

I don’t think that the family plans offer tenant management.

Since the only way that DropBox makes sense as anything more than a “lifestyle business” is by focusing on the enterprise. The correct comparison would be what they both offer enterprise customers and not my comparison is on the personal side.

We have Dropbox on our phone so photos are automatically uploaded to it, this is great because we love sharing out pictures. If we were to do this with one of the other services we would have to mess around with photo permissions and 'share' them with the other person constantly. I got iCloud family thinking it would behave like a single folder the family could access but found out it's really just a bunch of individual iCloud accounts with a shared quota.

She can scan a document at home on the Brother scanner that automatically places the file onto Dropbox. I can immediately fill it out or sign it from my iPad remotely, and she will have the modified document waiting for her. This came in very handy when moving houses and having a bunch of paperwork to complete. I can't even imagine how this process would be on another cloud storage provider.

There have been many times where I just want to cancel my Dropbox subscription because the pricing and storage tiers don't suit me but I can't find a suitable replacement.

I appreciate them for being an independent company that is doing its own thing in a gradual way. The internet needs more of those. But it would be miserable if they became a major player with their existing contempt towards end users.

We use dropbox as a poor persons collaboration tool. About 100,000 files in 20,000 folders. My major complaint - when it gets stuck syncing a quit on the app and restart of the app solves things - so I wish they would do that internally to the app, just timeout and restart whatever is jamming things up.

I do like the app / folders scoped permissions. For apps that play well there is an apps folder, and the app just has access to its own folder in there. A nice integration point for apps to dump files to for users to look at.

Most users use almost nothing so for our use cases google drive has no marginal cost and I've been seeing what I consider positive changes to the google drive story (and maybe speed?)

What does this complaint mean? You mean Drive doesn't sync down shared files for you to use offline?

On my Chromebook the integration between local files, my Drive files, and Drive files shared by others with me is completely transparent, including local caching of files I've viewed so I can access them again offline, which furthermore includes the directory listings of "shared with me" with the cached and not cached files distinguished by bold or grey names. I can also explicitly mark Drive files as available offline, if I want to manage it manually.

[1] https://syncthing.net/