Then I'll send her a link so she has access to the file. She and I can both go into the document at the same time to make revisions and add comments or questions for the other person. Then I send the doc link to our designer. Once the document is finished, then I put it in Dropbox. Google Docs is great for opening and editing documents when you don't have the right app. For instance, if you don't have Pages or Word, you can upload a Word document to Google Docs and it will convert the file into an editable format.
I use it sometimes for converting Excel spreadsheets to the right kind of. It can even replace MS Office for many people. Our SpinWeb Dropbox is organized by client projects. We have a very organized filing structure so I know exactly where marketing materials or website images for a specific project are going to be. Google has a similar feature with Drive, but we prefer the usability aspect of Dropbox for storage. Dropbox has great backup features so if we need to recover a past version of a file, we can do that.
It also has features to allow us to selectively sync only the folders we use often so we don't have to clutter our own computers with folders and files that are in the archive. I also use Dropbox for sharing screenshots.
We had huge problems for the last 8 months! I started the switch over to Google Drive. The price was right and I trusted the system.
I was wrong. I used it to backup my Lightroom files. Not only did it drop all of my Lightroom files, it killed them on my computer via the sync. The files were not in the trash. The new features are great and the reliability is significantly better. I have only used dropbox and I have no point of reference on the other two. DB customer service, although it seems to try its best, sucks. It is obviously outsourced to third world countries, which to a degree is a security issue, and the reps are most of the time low IQ and English challenged.
DB is saving a few bucks at the expense of service quality and possibly security, not to mention the fact that it is sending jobs overseas. You forgot to add in this article that Dropbox takes your space even if somebody shares files with you. For me, the best answer seems to be all of them! I purchased Dropbox Business Advanced so I could share folders with my assistant did not like having to pay for a third subscription which I did not need.
While we were preparing for a major presentation both my assistant and I were working on different documents and saving them to a shared dropbox folder — or at least we thought we were.
We ended up having to email large documents to one another during our final push to get the presentation completed. It was crazy and hard to keep up with latest versions of documents. Dropbox could not help me fix the problem while it was happening, but suggested I unshare the folder and then reshare to see if that worked — it did not. There are still documents in the shared folder that only one of us can see.
No fix in the works. Now I am looking for other solutions because I need all documents in a shared folder to be visible to all the individuals sharing the folder. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. But Dropbox syncing seems to bring the notebook to its knees — especially on startup. I agree with your comment regarding eating up storage on a MacOS.
I have been a Dropbox subscriber for years with no problems. I now have a MacBook Air and unable to use my Dropbox account as I did in the past due to storage issues.
The price and arrogance of DropBox is what really moved me away. The web UI is confusing at best. Creating a shared folder for people to drop stuff in uses a file request, as in you are requesting files from them. So much easier with both Google Drive and way better with OneDrive now that the person does not need a OneDrive account Google requires a gmail account. Also DropBox just has no real value add like both Google and especially Office At times all of them have had bad sync speeds.
All of them basically have the same sync speed to me now. Google does get hung up more but not often. However I do know they had a massive internal merger so to speak. The One Drive Sync client in its current form October of has the most options with sync on demand etc.
I have it setup on 3 Windows computers, a Mac, a iPad and my iPhone. Each is set to sync different parts local with my home desktop syncing everything local so I can back it up to a local drive and backblaze. The fact that you get full Office with either the personal or Home is the thing that pushed me to OneDrive. Because of the number of photos, I can take during the busy season months, and the use of Adobe Lightroom, Dropbox stops working for me. Dropbox will not let you exclude certain file types — It they would all you to filter certain file types from syncing that would solve part of the issue 2.
Dropbox sync smart sync and selective sync will sometimes crash with large folders as others have mentioned with OneDrive — this forces Dropbox to try to sync the entire folder AGAIN and thus creating more API calls. Great article and comments. Just wanted to add my data point. Another strength of DBox and weakness for the others is if you have to travel to developing countries, or interact with weak internet infrastructure.
Really impressive, thorough review — great work. Thanks again for a great article. This comparison seems to assume the whole world is using Windows. The Dropbox native client is first class on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Good luck with OneDrive…. I also strongly disagree with the results of Round Two. Useless junk. Well, to your first point, from a practical standpoint the whole world is, in fact, using Windows I say that as a Linux user , unless you feel that a market share of over 90 percent is insignificant. Mac and Linux users are, however, well catered for on this site, with several articles dedicated to online software that plays nice with these OSes.
I googled your issue and this thread popped up as the first result, maybe it will help you? All these tools are really designed to stop working with our data in local servers, to move it on the WEB without limits in number of folders, files, easy sharing with users out of office, etc. So moving all the company data to the cloud is good to optimize the sharing, mobility … but working with engineering documents, plans, spreadsheets every day is another song.
We are not there yet, the Internet access lines are not as fast, reliable, or secure, neither are web applications good enough compared to the desktop ones. I work in some clients with Gdrive and OneDrive, with millions of files and thousand of folders….
Finally we have adopted a hybrid solution because it is impossible to work depending exclusively on the cloud. Without saying that in any case we need a backup solution; retention is not the same and is not reliable. Thanks a lot for your opinions. I am a student who uses a Mac for most purposes, iPad to take notes in class, and Ubuntu for all my programming assignments.
I need a cloud service that will sync all my devices. I have tried iCloud and OneDrive but found them to be unsatisfactory. Would Google Drive or Dropbox sync better with all my devices? Thank you for this comparison of the 3 cloud options. It was clear and easy for a non-tech person to understand.
I am starting a blog and I am looking for cloud storage to back-up everything associated with the blog — the blog itself, images, posts alone, etc.
I thought I would go with google drive until I read that it uses only the google office apps. I already have an Office subscription a personal one. Do you have a recommendation for me?
I would greatly appreciate it! One vital point missing here, if you need to conduct business in China or access your google drive in China, that is impossible unless you add a reliable VPN to your cost.
There is another significant difference between OneDrive and Google Drive and that is how they handle uploaded photos. You can set your smartphone to automatically upload photos to either service and never lose another photo to a damaged or lost phone , but Google Drive has a subset called Google Photos that treats them a bit differently.
With Google Photos, you have unlimited storage but any photos over 16MP are compressed unless you choose High Quality.
With the HQ setting, your stored photos then go against your free or paid storage limit. With OneDrive photos are not compressed. Great article and a lot of valuable information. In the area of cloud storage security, there is a very effective and free solution that at least works with both OneDrive and Google Drive.
VeraCrypt, a fork of the now defunct TrueCrypt, can be used to create a very secure encrypted folder within your local OneDrive or Google Drive folder theoretical should work equally well on any other service. The timestamp on the Truecrypt volume file is then updated when you unmount it. I used this solution with a financial advisor client and it works perfectly with OneDrive and properly syncs all changes to the encrypted container.
VeraCrypt works best with Dropbox, because of the block level file transfer. I know with Google Drive if you make a change to a VeraCrypt container, it has to sync the whole large file, instead of just needed chunks like Dropbox does I tested awhile back. I would assume that Onedrive would be the same as Google Drive for this.
Winner for me is Dropbox because of this. The company decrypts files upon arrival at its data centers, then encrypts them again. TLS is, as the name suggests, transport layer security. TLS protects the connection itself, agnostic of the data flowing over it. Nice comparison review. Was the recently imposed 3-device limit with the free version of Dropbox mentioned? I tested all 3 of these and iCoud as well. Dropbox was the clear winner because it was the only one of the 4 that maintained total fidelity and the integrity of my my filing system which is critical to finding what you need when you need it.
Google, Microsoft and Apple all have an axe to grind and their cloud services clearly show their biases as they try to force your files into their world. Dropbox is is agnostic and only has the users preferences in mind.
Dropbox is useless. Google Drive and OneDrive are the obvious winners, each with their own unique advantages, depending on their intended use.
Where to start with Dropbox- Overpriced, a terrible UI design, dumb name. Currently under investigation for false and misleading SEC filings, a plummeting stock price- the list goes on. Get rid of Dropbox now and your life will dramatically improve.
The major hang up our team has been having with OneDrive has been folder sharing with our team of 7 people. I found folder sharing seemless and a total breeze with both Google Drive and DropBox. But with OneDrive, we have talked to countless support pros and Microsoft and no one seems to be able to answer WHY no one on our team seems to be able to share folders with each other that show up on their computer streaming files.
Does anyone have this same issue or a solution? We want to use OneDrive instead of the other two but for this main reason we have not been able to get things going.
Google Drive has never presented this issue not once and it was so easy a monkey could do it…not sure why OneDrive make folder sharing on your computer so difficult? The office I work for is looking at switching to a cloud based system.
Does anyone have any experience or insight on which of these would work best? Adobe has a cloud of its own, have you tried it? I have used dropbox for business since and now its end of I am moving to google drive only due to one reason. Dropbox do not support full sync of more aprox files. I have used about hours to get hold of all my files before i had to pay a third party to help me out.
I got 1,4 million files and 9,2 TB of data and it takes me 17 days to sync to google drive. Then i have to sync from google drive to my local drive.
I have tried with help from dropbox support 3 times without any luck of fixing it. Even tried downloading files in selective sync at a time. Even then i run into challenges. Even though it says that its updated not all folders and files are. Thats pretty annoying when you have used one week for only one go and then fail. This was my 4th fail and then I gave up.
I just hope I am more lucky getting the files out from google drive. If not i have to move the data to a third party vendor that send a physical hardrive with the data. I feel like this was me writing this. How is Google Drive working out for you? Also its very CPU consuming, takes forever to start syncing and crashes sometimes. Thanks for the review.
Do you know which platform supports directly opening Excel file with password protection? I was with Dropbox for two years; liked the service but found their price too high. However, my alternative choice was Sync, and that proved disastrous: it stripped the dates off all my files, replacing them with the current date. A great detailed review. However, some of the information is out-of-date when it comes to OneDrive.
OneDrive also now has at rest encryption with an AES key. Offering features like biometrics to protect the app and fully supporting features like Dark Mode. Plus 1TB of storage and full Office apps at such a bargain price is hard to pass by. The only place where I feel OneDrive lacks is in photos.
It is the only reason I still pay for GB of iCloud storage. Microsoft is definitely capable of building a good cross-platform app for photos. Is it really available for non business subscribers?
Thank you Fergus. The entire analysis and your specific reply are very helpful. As for OneDrive winning the security section,in this specific case, probably yes, though there are better services out there. If I utilize the Office Home subscription and only have two family users, do we still get 6TB to share between us, or are we each capped at 1TB?
Capped at 1 TB each. You would need to connect another account s to make use of the remaining TBs. OneDrive just seems so …basic, almost like bottom level UI — UX design, with no usability considerations for the average consumer. I thought Microsoft was a top of the line organization. How hard would it be to allow user customization of folders, such as color or icon. Also, file sort retention.
I would like to control the look and layout of my premium file storage. I also notice that files are often misplaced and duplicated.
What a shame. For added security I encrypt all my sensitive files using third party level encryption for a small annual fee. I have an issue and have just found out that many people have it too, recently. Dropbox is disabling user paid accounts Dropbox Plus , without reason, notice or warning.
You simply loose all your files all of a sudden, specially if you use Smart Sync. My life in the past 8 years is in there. After researching on Reddit, I found the exactly same problem with everybody: Disabled Account without notice, no response to open tickets. If you create another account in order to be able to post and ask for help in their community , they BAN you.
Dropbox allows users to move files, such as images and video, off their computers and onto a database in the cloud.
Furthermore, it lets users save space and share files quickly. Before deciding to make Dropbox your main file storage system, check out these five interesting pros and cons. This not only gives peace of mind, it also saves potential hardware space. When it comes to recovering a file, users want a simple process to retrieve their data.
Rest assured, Dropbox makes the procedure very easy. It requires absolutely no technical know-how or live support. All users are able to restore the files on their own without any help. This reduces IT involvement for businesses as well.
For a company, the biggest Dropbox concern is related to the notorious hackings of Dropbox. The type of things businesses store on the cloud are usually the most likely thing targeted and exploited. Also, not every user at an organization is going to take the necessary steps to protect their Dropbox account properly. Be it weak passwords or mishandling of file storage, all it takes is one team member to error for valuable data to be exposed.
The most likely security issue is the possibility that a site administrator views sensitive files. Despite tough competition, we find Dropbox to be a superior cloud storage system than Google Drive in nearly every aspect. That said, there are some cases where Google Drive may better serve your needs. For newcomers to storage systems with limited experience, scarce funds, and little file content, Google Drive is the best option to try out as it has a free version with a lot more perks than Dropbox.
Seasoned Google users will have no problems navigating through and understanding the format of Google drive. Business users will find Dropbox especially advantageous because it has bonus features like unlimited storage and a new and improved password management system for links shared in the office.
Galaxy Buds 2 Best Movies on Netflix. Free storage Both Dropbox and Google Drive offer free storage space for those who would like to try out their respective services before putting down a few dollars a month for something more expansive and permanent. File syncing Dropbox can sync files across multiple devices and operating systems, including all primary desktop and mobile platforms. File sharing File sharing is of paramount importance to many cloud storage customers, as it makes it much easier to send large files or folders to groups of people.
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