Dropbox and other hosted storage / "cloud storage"

I got Jottacloud working. It has a couple of issues

• sync is not reliable across the PC directory (folder), even though it is 100% reliable if you view the folder in a browser tab (Refresh doesn’t help)
• the option to change the PC folder location doesn’t work; it always puts it in c:\user\USERNAME\jottacloud

The Nextcloud options seems to be the same base price as dropbox, although you get 5GB.

I have a Q: can the root of Onedrive be shared? I don’t see any way to get a share URL for it. Googling suggests that it cannot be done. Probably a good thing.

Sounds like Google Drive with its free 15GB is the best option, if you aren’t bothered about having a decent PC sync. But a Synology client for it can be mapped as a network drive to any PC on the LAN, using a UNC path.

I have installed jottacloud and the UI is impenetrable Not found a way to create a directory (folder) on the PC which is synced with the “cloud”. With dropbox you automatically get c:\dropbox, or d:\dropbox etc.

Otherwise, the 5GB for the free version is pretty good.

I don’t believe google drive integrates with the windows dir structure.

Been revisiting the need for a bit more “shareable server storage” (called “cloud” in the current century ) than the 2GB which free dropbox gives you.

Dropbox are still charging £10/month as the smallest step and they give you 2TB which is absolutely vast.

Onedrive is 5GB free and £1.99/month for 100GB.

So one pays a hefty premium for dropbox’s easy to use windoze “right-click to get URL” user interface. I wonder why nobody else does that? Maybe they have patented it.

FWIW Onedrive still works on win7-64 and probably earlier.

As mentioned further back, a “self hosted dropbox” type of thing is not hard to set up. Synology in particular offer what looks like a good option and then you can have umpteen terabytes, limited only by your ADSL connection.

The downside is that you need to open up ports in your router which, with consumer-grade kit, presents an attack vector. You just don’t know how good the security is. And not just against external hacking (via which the attacker can get access to your entire internal network – see e.g. the recent RDP hack which is so serious that M$ even released a patch for winXP) but also accessing other stuff on the “dropbox” and not just the folder to which you sent somebody the link for.

Also you need client apps, for usable integration. These might be good, or crap, or anything in between. For example the dropbox integration for android is crap: there is a limit of something like 10 files for an upload in one go. You can get around that with yet another app… so now I use google drive on the phone. Dropbox works well with windows. But then so does google drive.