[brightball]

I might sign up for this just for Smart sync.

A great next step here would be to venture into the online document signing space (Ecosign, RightSignature, etc).

You’ve got probably 70% of what you need for it here already with Showcase.

EDIT: Tried to sign up but the linux client doesn't support Smart Sync yet. Support people tell me it's pending.

[SmellTheGlove]

> I might sign up for this just for Smart sync.

Not me. I'd pay a little more for Smart Sync, but not double the price. If they went to $129 on Plus and included that feature, I'd upgrade immediately.

If anything, this thread has me looking at OneDrive because I didn't realize $99 a year got you Office + 1TB of storage. I said upthread I didn't intend to switch, but now I'm really thinking.

[bad_user]

On last year's Black Friday, in Romania (my country) I saw Office365 Family offers for $50 and you can simply wait for Black Friday next year to renew.

On the other hand OneDrive's client is shitty and until last month they weren't doing file versioning either. So it's just a cheap knockoff and you get what you pay for.

Microsoft Office being included is cool, but then me and my colleagues are collaborating with Google Docs, which is way better than anything else when multiple people are editing the same files. For presentations I'm using Apple's Keynote, which is the best I've seen thus far. And there's always LibreOffice for those docs I receive.

What I use OneDrive for are backups with https://www.arqbackup.com — if I can find good offers this year, I might renew and keep my backup system, otherwise no.

[jpalomaki]

Smart sync is great news, happy to pay the extra for that.

Setting up on new computer has been painful since full sync takes couple of days (lots of small files). With smart it would be actually possible to travel with empty disk and sync needed files on destination.

[hellofunk]

> Setting up on new computer has been painful

What about Selective Sync which has been there for years?

[jpalomaki]

Not very convenient when you have lots of files and deep structures. Selecting the stuff you need through that dialog is quite inconvenient (although doable, this is what I have been using to get the most important files on my computer first).

[joshstrange]

> Smart sync is great news, happy to pay the extra for that.

I'm not, it doesn't cost them hardly anything extra and yet I have to pay twice as much a month just so I reclaim some HD space?

[cm2187]

Synology offers what I believe is the equivalent to Smart Sync. You pay for the machine upfront, a lot cheaper than these services over the long run, and you don't need to trust a third party with your data.

[komali2]

Doesn't google drive have a similar feature?

[ptman]

It does now, and OneDrive seems to also have similar functionality with the latest win10 update. But many people have bad experiences with the sync algorithm of Google Drive.