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I used tried most file sync app extensively (Dropbox, Onedrive, Google drive, Box, copy).
While Dropbox is not perfect (had a crashing bug for a month), it has the best client on all major systems that I use (Windows, Linux, IOS) and is constantly innovating. The automatically installed "sharing Icon" (round thing in word) was an intrusion I didn't like. Some people thought it's a virus. My university has "unlimited" google drive space, but it is a sad joke. While it is fine for a few google sheets/doc, it can't handle a few GB reliably.
The client itself crashes on three different windows versions constantly and is a MAJOR resource hog. Google itself states it is not made to handle things like backups. Some of my folders are not synced correctly, don't know what is going on there. Once it followed a link to a network drive and started copying everything from there to the hard drive until it was full, that was fun.
It is also not possible to unsync subfolders (if the app ever loads all folers), which is ridiculous, because my hardrive is not "unlimited" and now I have to make different first level folder for everything that I don't want on my laptop. Talk about usability. OneDrive is an okay user experience on windows. They tried to partially sync but show all files, which definitely causes confusion. At least they try to innovate here. When they cut down the free tier I moved, because it is not as good as the Dropbox client. It also does some things with synced word files, which I don't fully understand and to be honest my trust is just gone after the privacy turd of Windows 10 (which I use and find OK otherwise).
Copy.com was very promising but was shut down for small time users. I used Box.com only shortly, wasn't even close to Dropbox at that time. Probably still doesn't have a Linux client. TLDR: I started paying for Dropbox and am rather happy. Small innovations like the scanning features eliminate friction even more, so they are working on things that I actually use. Dropbox is miles ahead of its competition. |