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A comment on Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Google Drive/Box/Dropbox?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Google Dr... by lostdog on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:23PM (#34394794)
I would love to use local programs and rely on these fine storage systems as the distributed storage for the programs. However I never know if I can trust them to behave properly in this setup. Dropbox in particular looks like it always wants to disable these types of setups, rewrite common apps themselves and force you to use them.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Google Dr... by Leftium on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:17PM (#34406859)
I store most of my documents in Dropbox or Google Drive File Stream, including MS Office xlsx, docx files.

I've only run into a few programs that don't well work this way:

1. Mailstore portable (on Google Drive File Stream)

2. NPM (file lock problems with Dropbox)

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