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Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users
In case anyone's unaware... if you're a Mac user storing your Dropbox on an external drive, you'll shortly lose that ability.
https://talk.tidbits.com/t/dropbox-drops-support-for-storing-files-...
TheMainOne Interesting. I'm still quite happy with Sync — whenever I've had a question for their techs, I've received a prompt answer, either same day or next day. However your complaint did strike a note in one sense, as there is no user community to whom I could submit problems. This is one aspect of DropBox that I really like.
Anyhow, after reading your comments, I checked out PC World's list of Best Cloud Services. I also checked the number of WorldWide Users for each platform. By far and away the most popular services are iCloud, with over 800 million users, and OneDrive, with about 500 million..
By contrast, the third party services are led by DropBox, with a staggering 700 million users. Sync.com says it has over 2 million "users and businesses," pCloud has 16 million users, and iDrive (which calls itself the world's most popular cloud service) has 4 million.
But who is the best? Well, PC Magazine hedges its bets, as you can see here: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-storage-and-file-sharing-services
Note that "Best Overall" is oneDrive, which has the distinction of corrupting every single PDF, pages, docx, and jpeg to which I once entrusted it. Also, DropBox, truly the world's most popular cloud storage service is never even mentioned! Nor is pCloud. I have given iDrive a whirl—at its amazing introductory offer of $15.95 for a year of 5Tb of data --and is far HATE the UI, which requires me to DOWNLOAD any file I wish to view. More later...
Hi ArthurPix,
Half the time I think these publications rank things based on either nonsense or kickbacks. Although I have no evidence to prove any of it. But when I see things like you linked, I just have to shake my head.
Like I said as well, I really wish I could stay on dropbox. The fact is it just won't work for me anymore. Also I no longer trust them. But that's a story for another day.
I understand what you are saying about sync dot con. The problem for me is that their tech-support was absolutely useless. Dumb as rocks. So it didn't help me. I never could get about 400 GB uploaded. It's spewed errors and choked constantly. I later figured out that I had a file type that I didn't like. But at that point I was done.
And I do understand that pcloud is not the biggest. But it is blazing fast. At the same level as dropbox for me. And it competes with sync by allowing you to put up files that are encrypted in a special folder. And that's free at the business level. You pay more for it at the personal level. But I came to realize with all that I have been searching for, that I really don't need much of anything encrypted. So the few documents that I might want to encrypt I can. The rest of it I choose blinding fast speed.
I intend to continue to monitor this space. I really appreciate your thoughts on this. If any of us find anything of value, I hope we post here because it is really helpful.
I'll do the same.
TheMainOne Sync is certainly not perfect, but their support for me has been almost immediate. It could be that my problems were simpler to resolve. I was having terrible trouble with an apparent slowdown, but they came back at me and admitted lots of users had been having trouble with the latest release of the new desktop app on May 23. They gave me an uninstall app and a link to the previous release. It solved everything, and I kind of wonder if at least some of your troubles stemmed from this. In any case, their pricing suits me and their speeds are just fine for my purposes, plus I never need to upload multi-hundred gigabyte files, which really does require special abilities, Good luck with pCloud and I’ll keep it in mind for the future.
