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What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.

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I heard you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

Brilliant :). Since this is currently going to woosh for younger visitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.

Do you need full Finder-integrated sync, or mainly reliable uploads and share links? That distinction narrows the Mac options quite a bit.

You can check it dosya.dev/desktop/

Self-host. NextCloud on a moose instance https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud

1 click install, daily backups, no need to manage anything

Dropbox is 2TB for the same price as your 40GB. Cool idea though.

Yeah, definitely not 1-to-1 comparison as moose has a VM underneath and you can run pretty much anything

9€/m for 40GB? Yeah no, thats a terrible suggestion!

Just get yourself a Hetzner Storage Share for 4.29€/m with nextcloud managed for you and 1TB!

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

That is a great offer if you're only looking for a nextcloud backup. If you also need an immich instance and some jellyfin, you need another machine.

A single purpose service is always more efficient then a more generilized one

iCloud Drive is the obvious choice.

Last I've tried iCloud Drive is not preserving file attributes especially if you want to use it cross OS between Mac and Windows. Dropbox does.

Last time I checked, there was no file history, which basically meant it's useless to me.

iCloud Drive does not allow you to recover files if you put them into the trash and empty it by accident. I learned this the hardest of ways.

That seems... reasonable? You have to trash the files and empty the trash before you lose them. Isn't that what the trash is for?

Issue is I accidentally used cmd+delete which deletes items immediately. And I’m so used to how Dropbox does it that it wasn’t my assumption.

Accidentally lost a bunch of data that way, figured I’d spread the word.

Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS.

Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.

If you only have ios and mac clients why not icloud?

Self-hosted Seafile + Tailscale works great for me.

Open source SyncThing

Filen

PCloud is another one I like. Been using it for a few years and am happy with it.

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