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I've used a ton: Google Drive, DropBox, OneDrive, iCloud...and none of them really take my fancy. So close yet often note close enough (or sometimes not even vaguely close).
I'm actually starting to lean towards OneDrive (though the removal of placeholders in Windows 10 seems dumb*) but I wanted to tap the collective hive to see what you're using and the pros / cons from your point of view.
I like:
- syncing only the files and folders I need (OneDrive with placeholders)
- granular security using groups or roles. (OneDrive, Google - though Google routinely messes things up)
- access on any device (all of them)
- The ability to organise in folders. Google sort of allows this, but it's not native: it's an add-on to their tag based system since they want people to search instead of browse. DropBox does this well, OneDrive doesn't provide a tree view when accessing via a browser. Dumb omission!
- the ability to move my stuff from one service to another. GoogleDocs are a plague. They do allow batch exporting, but you'll be there all day if you have a lot of files since it's limited in size/number.
I dislike:
- all-or-nothing approaches.
- lost files. Google is a bandit for allowing users to (almnost by default) create files that admins will never know about unless they dig deep.
- services that insist on converting your files to other formats.
* Best headline so far: "Windows 10 testers get syncing feeling over OneDrive"
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have used DropBox and Google Drive. I prefer Google Drive. It may be because it makes my life easier since I also use Android devices.
BTW, Android 5.0 is neat (this observation is based on 10 minutes of usage. More to come in some time).
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Post a write up please!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I should take my words back. They have moved to material UI which looks very different. I am not really able to navigate as quickly as I used to. UI modifications are way more than I expected.
May be by evening I could write a post.
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d@nish wrote: May be by evening I could write a post.
He is not asking about reviews on Android L....
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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I don't trust others with my stuff.
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You make your own hard drives?
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Apparently he uses cows to write his data on.. 
Meta: his CP profile picture.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I'm not sure it's cows, because when they get tipped-over it can be an udder disaster; very hard to get them back on-line.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Agent__007 wrote: Meta: his CP profile picture.
Is actually a bull.
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Sorry, I didn't (or rather couldn't) notice it, but the legal principle is "Ambiguity always benefits the party that did not create the draft." 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Well, more to the point, the model was a bull, I de-sexed it as I traced the outline.
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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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You've got to be out of your mind, or drinking with Mick, to entrust anything to the Cloud! That's daft! None of them is secure, as ha=s been repeatedly shown by the many serious data breaches exposed by companies that should know better just in the past year.
Will Rogers never met me.
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We have hosted email. At that point all bets are off since if someone gets access to our email then they get access to our passwords.
However, we also all use 2-factor authentication so it's a little harder.
Regardless: what we store is paperwork, reports, spec sheets and stuff. Things that, at one point or another, have been sent or received to/from someone else. The world won't end for us if our cloud drive docs are breached.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I tend to find myself using OneDrive more. The fact that it just worked with MS OS and Office etc. made things feel a bit more re-assuring.
Again, there is still further room for improvement, but i'm sure it will come over time and eventually just be as if it is a drive on your computer.
Just take anything over time;
OS's evolution - would you like to go back to just a text based single interface world? (Although it feels like it again sometimes when living at the command prompt for Git, NPM, Node etc.)
WWWeb evolution - woudl you like to go back to static content, no css and crap browser (yes know YOU probably want a pain free CSS world and yes we still have IE trouble)
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Have you tried Bittorrent Sync[^]?
It works like DropBox without the middleman (Peer to Peer). You can have multiple sync folders with different people/devices and it only sync's the things that changed.
Works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS/X, iOS and Android.
Bonus: No disgruntled 'Cloud' employees to steal your stuff.
Another Bonus: No 'Cloud' company handing your stuff over to the NSA.
It doesn't give you users and roles though.
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I can imagine a potential client being "scared off" by the current association of the word "BitTorrent" with the protocol used for widespread ip piracy.
What do you think ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Yeah, maybe...they probably should have given it a cute name 
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erm, Chris - don't you host, like, this big website thingy?
Isn't that, well, cloudy?
Can't you kinda roll your own?
:edit: I use OneDrive mostly - as it seems to do its job - although my password was hijacked once - but the theivin' gits didn't find anything worth taking!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Spoken like a true software developer!
Rewriting what Google, Microsoft and Apple have done with the live editing and full office integration is beyond my spare time quota for the next decade
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thinking laterally (as I am lying down at the moment)
Shirley there is 'personal cloud' software out there?
If not, have a word with Kevin about the next competition
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Actually there are some solutions, and the guys who manage our hosting are going to be presenting a couple of private options to me in the next week or so.
But you're right: let's just right the damn thing ourselves!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I use Google Drive for document sharing (between home and office and with other people too) - I didn't do very sophisticated things, but all scenarios I had, worked for me so never felt the urge to check out others...
1. Edit documents from everywhere
2. Share specific folders only (I had no problem to organize folders! It's seems to me native...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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They're usable enough on a PC, where you maintain a local copy of the files in a synched directory, but on android and itoys, they're only any good for view-only files.
Google docs, to give an example, has to be the worst word-processing device for documents that are to be edited on multiple devices.
Unless, of course:
0: You configure all your word processors on all possible devices to use exactly the same fonts, styles, encoding, etc. as the google docs defaults.
1: You don't use any advanced or complicated features at all (like any kind of numbering/tables/etc).
Spend an hour editing anything other than plain text on a mobile device, and you'll have to spend at least two hours fixing the file.
Fix things like that, and "the cloud" will become more usable -- but still not for anything important (for that, just share a drive, for Heaven's sake).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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