I have a big archive of family photos (130 GB and growing) that I’d like to share with my wife in read-only mode.
She only needs Dropbox for a bunch of documents, so paying an extra €10 per month is not something we can do.
Dropbox is a fairly expensive service. I’ve used it for years however I can no longer defend my choice.
Extended versioning is gone. Expiring sharing links are gone from Plus, so I have to pay €20 per month for it ... yes they grandfathered old accounts, however I made the mistake of trying out Pro and their Support refused to reinstate my old Plus account.
Want to search your documents? Pay €20 for Pro. Which wouldn’t be bad, except that their search is terrible.
And I could not get their support to admit that they aren’t indexing all my documents.
Just to get an idea, they aren’t indexing all PDFs (that Google Drive is indexing just fine) and they aren’t indexing text files with a .log extension either. A comparison with Google Drive isn’t even funny as GDrive does text recognition on images, indexing everything.
Speaking of Dropbox’s support, I’ve never been more frustrated in my life as the only issue they’ve ever solved for me was a refund, which they had to provide by law due to me being an EU citizen.
All in all, I ended up paying €20 per month for link sharing I had in Plus, broken full text indexing and piss poor support.
Also they keep pushing collaboration features but I wonder for whom. I don’t think they’ve thought this through. If Dropbox is no longer a good place to keep my photos then it stops being a good service for sharing work items with colleagues.
Do they hope for Dropbox to become a service imposed by management? Probably, however in that space they are competing with the likes of GSuite and we already have GSuite for email. And Extending that to the Business edition that gives you Unlimited space is much cheaper than going with Dropbox.
I’ll grant that Dropbox’s desktop sync is the best in business. But I can deal with the warts of the others.
What is wrong about Google Drive is that they count your email and drive storage in same quota. Few months ago, I exceeded my quota on Drive, and Gmail started giving me warning that I am running out of space, and will stop receiving emails if I do not upgrade, or free-up space.
What is wrong about it? Would you prefer to have 2 GB shared quota, or separate quota of 1 GB each? With shared quota you have more flexibility as to what service you prefer to use more.
In that case, aren't you arguing that quotas shouldn't be placed on email at all? It's not like they instantly block receipt of mail if you go over the quota, you have time to fix it, which is much better than many mail services.
Not really, a gigabyte goes a long way for email and if you get a warning with 200 MB left or something you have lots of time to act on it.
In contrast to a video recorded even by phones today a gigabyte is consumed in no time. Accidentally (without realizing how big it is or how much quota you have left) uploading a short clip is not something you put a lot of thought into.
It's not like they instantly block receipt of mail [...]
Well true, but it sucks having to rely on googles good will for that, you don't know the hard limits and they can change at any time without notice. It is still unacceptable UX.
I once was over the quota for over two months in a row, and still had no problems sending and receiving email. So I think Google does understand that email is critical service :)
She only needs Dropbox for a bunch of documents, so paying an extra €10 per month is not something we can do.
Dropbox is a fairly expensive service. I’ve used it for years however I can no longer defend my choice.
Extended versioning is gone. Expiring sharing links are gone from Plus, so I have to pay €20 per month for it ... yes they grandfathered old accounts, however I made the mistake of trying out Pro and their Support refused to reinstate my old Plus account.
Want to search your documents? Pay €20 for Pro. Which wouldn’t be bad, except that their search is terrible. And I could not get their support to admit that they aren’t indexing all my documents.
Just to get an idea, they aren’t indexing all PDFs (that Google Drive is indexing just fine) and they aren’t indexing text files with a .log extension either. A comparison with Google Drive isn’t even funny as GDrive does text recognition on images, indexing everything.
Speaking of Dropbox’s support, I’ve never been more frustrated in my life as the only issue they’ve ever solved for me was a refund, which they had to provide by law due to me being an EU citizen.
All in all, I ended up paying €20 per month for link sharing I had in Plus, broken full text indexing and piss poor support.
Also they keep pushing collaboration features but I wonder for whom. I don’t think they’ve thought this through. If Dropbox is no longer a good place to keep my photos then it stops being a good service for sharing work items with colleagues.
Do they hope for Dropbox to become a service imposed by management? Probably, however in that space they are competing with the likes of GSuite and we already have GSuite for email. And Extending that to the Business edition that gives you Unlimited space is much cheaper than going with Dropbox.
I’ll grant that Dropbox’s desktop sync is the best in business. But I can deal with the warts of the others.