DropBox raises price by 20%

Zip important files and directories. Use MD5 hash as backup to verify integrity. It is amazingly fast so you won't lose time. Store in Google Drive. This gives 15 GB of free storage for personal use. Save the Google url for future reference.

I keep my shared Dropbox files on my D: drive. The originals are always on C:

I wouldn't want to, say, run LT Spice in a Dropbox folder, with .raw files and such. I use Dropbox like a memory stick.

If you're considering an alternative to Dropbox, here are 30 competitors:

Weird. I went to cloudup.com to sign up and that page requires a "signup code". So they aren't creating any new accounts?

On a sunny day (8 Jun 2019 18:50:42 -0700) it happened Winfield Hill wrote in :

I do not understand why people use dropbox. I payed this year 116 US $ including value added tax here for my godaddy website Unlimited email, ssh access, don't remember how much space I have, but using several GB. Can run Linux programs on it (for example my own editor runs on it). Just have a directory 'pub' without index.html for things I post ... They have a helpdesk. They have leased a server in the Netherlands so access is ultra fast here.

This has been working for many many years now. And no commercials.

Wrote some simple upload scripts, have the server mirrored locally. Also pay for the domain registration, 14$71 last year. nameservers etc all run there.

I once had all that stuff running at home, but a lot of work.... just to check for hackers. But if you have a fixed IP address (cable?) you can do that too, and then it is only 15$ or so a year for everything.

Most of those fixed line telco and cable IP addresses here are not specified as 'fixed' but in reality never ever change.

Computers are on 24/7 here anyways.

Yes. I have an even cheaper, but very effective service, where I can store files for others to see.

But I use DropBox for its automatic synchronization between the multiple computers I'm constantly using. Like John, I have a separate location for my DropBox files, limiting my usage to stuff I'm working with.

But the 800x disparity between my actual usage, and what they're charging me for, with no intermediate service choice available, is disturbing.

Yes, that's what I need.

On 6/9/2019 8:23 AM, Winfield Hill wrote: ...

That's definite value that you don't get in simple GB's-for-free sites. $10 a month is way, way down in the noise of your monthly expenses. Not at all worth even thinking about alternatives.

I know, I know ... feeling that you're being cheated isn't about the money, but it will pass.

OK, thanks, I feel better already.

I have a simple drag-and-drop desktop thing that I call NewFiles. I drag a source folder link onto it, then a destination link, and it copies all new files, even open files. I use that to dump projects and such into my Dropbox folders. Dropbox then of course piles everything up, so I'm selective about copying stuff back to the "official" project folders on my main at-work PC.

When I'm done with a project (product is formally released to the company library) I can clean up its Dropbox folder. Or, with terabytes available, maybe not.

There are about 4000 files and pics in my "public" folder, things I don't mind other people seeing.

TANSTAAFFL.

John :-#)#

For software-as-a-service, the new model, Dropbox is worth $10 a month. Think of the storage as free.

I have five PCs sharing my files, which is $2 each.

On a sunny day (Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:18:29 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

Something I do not understand there. I have 7 computers, 3 are offline now. Some have different architectures. Everything is connected on the LAN, and I program most from this PC with a real nice big keyboard, and a real nice big monitor, via ssh -Y

Or if I am using the laptop (off now) from there also via ssh -Y If anything is modified in sources that I wrote, or important data comes in, like for example email, then that is backed up to an USB stick that I do carry with me always. A simple script command.

sync what? Nothing goes out of the door except when I take that USB stick or laptop.

Where and what for do I need a dropbox? Files for the world go to the web server, again via ssh from any PC.

I use version control for software releases that has worked fine for > 20 years.

I used to carry a memory stick around, but DB is easier. I can dump a huge pile of files onto Dropbox and immediately leave; everything will be updated onto multiple computers by the time I get home. If I power up my laptop, it syncs all the files too, without any effort on my part.

Memory sticks go in a dusty box with floppy disks and tape cartriges.

Our internet connection is 300 Mbits up/down at work, so things happen fast. Probably faster than a memory stick, but I don't have to wait around. DB apparently sends only changes, so it's really fast.

My people use version control in development, but I insist that a set of hard files be released for production. We name and number software the same way that we do all engineering drawings.

I use GitLab for that sort of stuff. Way cheaper.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Just this week in comp.risks: "GitHub shocks top developer: Access to 5 years' work inexplicably blocked."

No work of mine will be stored at Github or any other remote cloud service, however cheap.

Jeroen Belleman

On a sunny day (Sun, 09 Jun 2019 13:13:14 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

OK, but now dropbox has all your data. One motivated hacker and everybodies passwords and data is on the street. If you work for defense or anything like that I would consider that a security issue.

Of course, agreed, after I release a program the version number goes up, the latest source will be on some computer and on the USB stick. The released program will be on the same computer, on the website, and sometimes on other sites, github, whatever.

After some period things will also be stored on optical discs.

The price isn't so bad as the pimping up:

I don't want the interface changed!