Five Reasons I Went All-in With Dropbox

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👍 All-in with Dropbox: Five Reasons
Dropbox works on all the platforms I use: Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Android.
Dropbox synchronization is robust and efficient.
Dropbox includes file history, allowing me to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files for up to 120 days (30 days in standard plans).
Dropbox includes selective sync, meaning I don’t have to store all my Dropbox content on every one of my machines.
Dropbox, while not the cheapest alternative, is the most cost effective for me.
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0:00 Five Reasons With Dropbox
1:00 Cloud service features
4:10 1. Dropbox is everywhere I want to be.
5:00 2. Dropbox synchronization works
6:25 3. Dropbox includes 120 days of file history
8:00 4. Dropbox Professional includes selective sync
12:30 Encryption for security
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@askleonotenboom Год назад

Cloud storage is useful, but it has many confusing and competing alternatives.

@brittanyalleyne9760 3 месяца назад

What are the alternatives?

@askleonotenboom 3 месяца назад

@@brittanyalleyne9760 Many. OneDrive. Box.com. Google Drive. Proton Drive. iCloud. etc.

@MikaelKKarlsson Год назад

It was many years ago, but I dropped Dropbox when they promised not to give access to your files to third parties but were doing so. Now One Drive system integration has just been horrible so I could never use that either. I'm sure Dropbox is superior in practice.

@user-uq5qs5uh9k 3 месяца назад

Ask Leo is the best by far, safe and educational.❤

@pauz9776 Год назад

thank you I've been pulling my hair out trying to get rid of Google get off the dependency of Google cloud hate this drove me crazy you're a lifesaver thank you very well done.!!!

@megapangolin1093 5 дней назад

As always, Leo, first class guidance and advice. I always look for your reviews for anything with Windows 11 and Gary for my Mac. Can't beat honest experience and knowledge well presented. Thank you.

@angelaballard3929 4 месяца назад

Such timely advice, simply explained for non techies 🙏 from a new subscriber!

@ruzzellp 11 месяцев назад

Thank you

@stevesummerlin2604 4 месяца назад

I dropped Dropbox after many years. Two reasons: Only 3 logins allowed and no encryption. I switched over to Proton Drive. PD gives me 5GB. Enough for important paperwork. Box I use for photos and PDFs (50GB). OneDrive for cell cam photos and some use of Gdrive. There are so many options. I may just buy a NAS and get off the cloud. Opinions may vary. These are mine.

@wayneottenbreit3246 Год назад

I was with Dropbox for many years but then they unilaterally shut down my account - seemingly for an automated trip that no human reviewed before deleting about 300 Gb of personal files (like 20 years of family photos) and professional document. Over a year of almost daily communication with them (all initiated by me because they would not even have informed me of the deletion) and involvement of a lawyer, ended up with them denying me any recovery and being told that even though/if they made a mistake, they have so much more money than I can acquire in order to fight my claim.

@askleonotenboom Год назад

The real takeaway from this story is to NEVER rely on any online storage as the ONLY place to keep your data. In other words: BACK UP. If the data is in only one place - like DropBox - it's not backed up.

@rafaelaraujo9540 Год назад

Dropbox really sucks. I've just found out that r/dropbox community on Reddit has become private. There were thousands and thousands of complaints about disabled paid accounts there and now it's inaccessible. They're somehow trying to hide the traces… Did you get banned from their forum as well, when bringing up the subject?

@askleonotenboom Год назад

The Reddit activity has nothing to do with Dropbox. MANY reddit communities have gone dark for a couple of days to protest some changes at Reddit. It should be back in a day or two.

@johnwallis8010 7 месяцев назад

Same happened to me. Several years ago, Dropbox suspended my account without warning and without cause. To this day, I am still trying to take stock of what I lost. I will never trust a company with my data again.

@tizio54 7 месяцев назад

I've also chosen Dropbox for pretty much the same reasons. But I also use iDrive (backup only) and Sync (synched data with end-to-end encryption) as secondary cloud storage because one can never rely on any single cloud service to be 100% reliable nor still being available (say) 5 or 10 years from now. Dropbox has a long history and strong user base, so I expect them to still be around for the relatively long time.

@raylopez99 4 месяца назад

iDrive is the cheapest cloud I have found, gives the most bang for the buck, I use it myself.

@kevinmcfarlane2752 Месяц назад

Yes, I backup to multiple clouds including Sync. For the others I pre-encrypt and have it all automated, as well as to external drives locally.

@StanWu Год назад

Dropbox supports local P2P sync technology and also supports block-level sync, which is why Dropbox synchronization is so effective. Dropbox now owns their data center, but they did use AWS during their startup stage.

@leginyela 5 месяцев назад

Inner to outerr screen transfer works ok on my Fold. Just have to touch finger print security and hay ho screen transfer. Am I missing something?

@kkoz83 Год назад

Can you provide a link to the Boxcryptor alternative?

@askleonotenboom Год назад

cryptomator.org/

@D.von.N 2 месяца назад

Just watched a short video how dropbox had an attack recently. Changed my password there. I haven't had any sensitive data there, but just for the sake of it. The company reset all passwords anyway, even restricted the use of API keys (had to google about API key LOL, not familiar with this technology, not a user of it).

@mikeys7772 Год назад

I'm interested in how you index your photos and the people in those photos so I could search for pictures within a date range that contain my grandmother.

@tizio54 7 месяцев назад

You would need photo management software for that. Many options out there, including ACDSee and Excire Photo. The latter uses AI subject recognition to create an index database to enable searches on specific subject in photos (e.g. house, tree, sunset, sports, child, ...) as well as colours, and also includes people recognition.

@QuantumKurator 10 месяцев назад

Pcloud for the win

@cinemaipswich4636 10 месяцев назад

I have just finished building my TrueNAS server. It compresses and encrypts my data. If I were to use on-line storage, the security keys for my data would never be stored anywhere but in my home, with a copy at my family memeber's home. Always encrypt. If you give pics and video to a "cloud" vendor, can they use them? Can you afford to sue them? There is your answer.

@realsushrey Год назад

MEGA is also very good. No complaints beyond a niche exploit they duly disclosed and fixed.

@oleahmorris 10 месяцев назад

I have had multiple problems with OneDrive. It just about ate my business because of the way it syncs and I have a lot of large graphic files. I don't like the way it puts a proprietary folder on my hard drive. Does Dropbox do this?

@danlezama30 9 месяцев назад

One drive gives people nightmares!

@JustinKais 2 месяца назад

Yes Dropbox has its own folder just like onedrive.

@realsushrey Год назад

Can dropbox synchronise on Android? That is the big one for me. Most companies do not understand Android SAF and hence do not implement folder sync. It is possible, as some services do it without any problems like Syncthing.

@askleonotenboom Год назад

The Dropbox app works on Android BUT it's cloud access, meaning that the files are NOT stored on the Android device. This is pretty typical for these kinds of cloud services. HOWEVER there's another Android app that I use called "DropSync" which explicitly sync's dropbox folders to local folders and vice versa. it's nice because you can select specific folders rather than mirroring all of yoru Dropbox to your phone.

@realsushrey Год назад

@@askleonotenboom There is seemingly such a third party app for every other major cloud storage provider out there, I think they are from the same company. MEGA also has such a third party app available. I don't understand why people at large companies find SAF so hard to understand while Syncthing and that company make it look so simple without having a lot of resources at their hands. Thanks for the reply.

@tizio54 7 месяцев назад

@@askleonotenboom actually, the Dropbox app on my Android phone supports selective sync; any folder (with all its subfolders) can be set as Offline Files. The only limit is the available storage on the device.

@appeal Год назад

How did you transfer your files from AWS to Dropbox?

@askleonotenboom Год назад

Which AWS service? Typically you install dropbox on your PC, and download / place the files you want into it. Then you can later delete from the originating service. (AFTER BACKING UP of course.)

@appeal Год назад

@@askleonotenboom I don't understand your answer. I thought you said that you used AWS to store your files. Did you download all 3TB and then re-upload the photos to Dropbox or did you find a service to transfer them directly in the cloud?

@askleonotenboom Год назад

@@appeal Exactly. My photos were stored on Amazon's S3 (one of AWS's MANY services). But I also had them all on my PC as well -- S3 was a backup. So all I had to do was copy them into my Dropbox folder, and Dropbox dutifully uploaded them all. It took a while. Once that was done and I was satisifed, I removed them from S3.

@graytonw5238 Год назад

I've found Sync checks off all the same tick marks, and with the Solo plan you get more storage for less money than Dropbox's plan. I'll admit it's a tad slower in performance than Dropbox, but because it has end-to-end encryption with zero-based knowledge, it saves having to use encryption utilities like BoxCryptor. I'm not a sponsor for Sync, I just personally think it's better for my purposes.

@viktorpaulsen627 3 месяца назад

I use Sync for small documents. It is good, but slow.

@kevinmcfarlane2752 Месяц назад

I use Sync too, in addition to the others. For the others I auto-encrypt before backing up.

@Pgan803 Месяц назад

I once use DB for all my computers BUT DB messed up all my file names due to its lack of ability to Sync properly, so I end up "which file is Latest and Originals" I read GoogleDrive is best at Syn across devices

@franciscos.5839 Год назад

Egnyte is the best.

@Stardenver Год назад

I want to love Nextcloud, but it's always giving me a hard time. Every new version seems to work at first but causes problems sooner or later. PHP is probably not meant to be the basis of a cloud storage system. Dropbox is my second choice and I would use it if I wouldn't have Google Workspace. I think that Dropbox is superior to Google Drive when it comes to sync, but the package is just better for me. I pay 20 bucks for 5 TB of storage and it comes with Gmail (own domains) and all the other Google services minus the profiling and data scan for ads. So as a pure Cloud Storage Service I feel like Dropbox wins. But Google offers the better overall package.

@D.von.N 2 месяца назад

Do clouds have backups of the customers' data, like copies? In case the server goes up in flames or is hit by a meteor or a terrorist attack. That as a mirror of your house getting burned down with all the hard discs you had your data on.

@D.von.N 2 месяца назад

Besides, cloud storage, like crypto mining and operating, are big energy consumers. Not very ecological. Small and economically less significant countries (which are targeted by these businesses) are refusing placing large server complexes on their land, in fear of water shortages for cooling these monsters.

@askleonotenboom 2 месяца назад

Cloud services do have backups. They're not backups you or I can access, they're for the cloud service's use.

@plaherne79 9 месяцев назад

My setup is: OneDrive as my main cloud storage - MS office clinches the deal for me. Time Machine Backup to 2 x 2TB HDDs using a dual HDD dock. I remember your previous video saying that using SSDs for backup is pointless - totally agree! Backblaze account (Personal) which I find amazing value for money as you can also backup any external drives you own. Also have 1TB iCloud storage 👍🏼

@mdd1963 6 месяцев назад

Currently, for the cheapskates among us, TerraBox offers 1 TB free.... (no idea how long or if that will last, of course)

@brittanyalleyne9760 3 месяца назад

What about Dropbox Vault?

@askleonotenboom 3 месяца назад

No experience with it. Sounds a lot like OneDrive's Personal Vault.

@RoryVanucchi Год назад

Used it for years but not in love with having to be connected when in an off-grid situation. Yes you can have separate folder but defeats purpose. Selective sync sucks.

@jcap8391 Год назад

Selective sync is amazing. Microsoft doesn't have that feature

@pantarei. 3 месяца назад

I would rather use Mega or anything a bit more private. Dropbox is not the best option fo privacy.

@pauz9776 Год назад

Google changes the rules all to often they are bossy and smug and spam like crazy to kion their eco system and nah nag nag just one notification after another. driving me crazy Im linux guy and they hate Linux

@kevinmcfarlane2752 Месяц назад

They can also censor your files when required.

@douyu1971 Год назад

ease of use.Dropbox is everywhere you want to be.Dropbox has many tools that you can use.Dropbox integrates with other software.Dropbox synchronization is so effective.