Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal
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OneDrive personal works great, I'm using it as it's intended, though.
Business version would need some heavy testing again first.
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!
I tried OneDrive for Business in the enterprise a few years ago. It had problems, but they were all due to a certain set of users who were trying to sync many hundreds of thousands of files... I assume now it's because of then sync limits.
Now that OneDrive for Business has gotten much better over the years, I'd be willing to try it again if I had a set value of the sync limits and that nobody would be over them.
Could be a separate discussion, I am currently evaluating ODFB to use it for our users replacing their personal folders on their computers as an alternative for an end point backup solution. Just started testing it out from today!
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ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
Did they remove the sync limits? What exactly did they change that made the issues go away?
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@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
Did they remove the sync limits? What exactly did they change that made the issues go away?
Limits changed over time, but still exist.
They changed the backend. ODfB used to be Groove. OD was always OD. Now ODfB is the same sync functionality and client as OD. In fact, you now actually use the same client to add all your accoutns.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
Excellent news. I had long heard of the sync issues and hadn't deployed it to anyone here except for a few users to overcome a legacy email system's size limits. I will have to look into this more now, as it is included in our Business Premium licensing.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
When I take photos and videos with my Android phone, they automatically sync to OneDrive.
Every so often, I'll delete them from my phone, then sort them out in OneDrive.
Nextcloud has a feature to auto-upload pictures from iOS and Android devices, but I have never used it yet. I should probably set that up and test it out.
I've been doing this from my Android phone now ever since I setup Nextcloud a few months ago. No issues thus far. Have it set to backup once I'm connected to wifi.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.
I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.
After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.
The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
found that large amount of folder/file download only work with IE for ODFB! -
@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
When I take photos and videos with my Android phone, they automatically sync to OneDrive.
Every so often, I'll delete them from my phone, then sort them out in OneDrive.
Nextcloud has a feature to auto-upload pictures from iOS and Android devices, but I have never used it yet. I should probably set that up and test it out.
I use the Auto upload on my Android Phone (Pixel) and it rocks. I take my pictures and it uploads after the camera finishes processing the image. By default, it only uploads when you're on WiFi.
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I signed up for the personal version of OneDrive (monthly for now) as I still have my Dropbox account active till September, that will give me enough time to test out all functionalities and make the switch.
My plan is to move the entire dropbox files to OneDrive and work as usual with the "file on demand" enabled for the next 2 months and see how it goes. The longer process is moving files from Dropbox to OneDrive. I've now disabled selective sync and syncing the entire Dropbox library to my local hard drive and then move the data from DB to OD locally and let it sync up to OD. Camera upload enabled on OD as well.
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@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:
I signed up for the personal version of OneDrive (monthly for now) as I still have my Dropbox account active till September, that will give me enough time to test out all functionalities and make the switch.
My plan is to move the entire dropbox files to OneDrive and work as usual with the "file on demand" enabled for the next 2 months and see how it goes. The longer process is moving files from Dropbox to OneDrive. I've now disabled selective sync and syncing the entire Dropbox library to my local hard drive and then move the data from DB to OD locally and let it sync up to OD. Camera upload enabled on OD as well.
I downloaded my entire dropbox folders to local machine by removing selective sync and enabling sync all files/folders, but seems to be huge difference in the size. Total size on disk is 262GB but dropbox usage shows 577 GB. Not sure how to solve this!
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Maybe Dropbox shows versions in the size. That would be expected.
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The size difference on files on my computer was an issue with dropbox on the latest version of Win10. I used my mac to download all files and then moved the Dropbox folder inside OneDrive and got all synced. Apart from some files not being synced all looks good now. I am almost ready to cut Dropbox, part of that I already switched from yearly plan to monthly (was due for renewal on sep), just keeping it a month or two more to finalize.
With the new option of getting MS offoce on unlimited devices and concurrent sign in to 5 devices with the O365 plan ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/You-re-about-to-get-even-more-from-your-Office-365-Home-or/ba-p/234907) along with smart sync, I guess its a great deal
