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I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu.

I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my music was instantly available at my new office. When I'm working and I need a file on my Windows machine, I just throw it in Ubuntu One and switch keyboards.

I'm disappointed by this, but not surprised. They haven't been doing anything with the product in a long time.

I had hoped that just meant it was a stable product.

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For Google Drive, inSync works well on Linux: https://www.insynchq.com/linux (and supports multiple accounts which GDruve doesn't support on any platform)

thanks :) I Recently switched from Dropbox to GDrive and this looks like a really functional app. Have to give it a go.

Same here. I have been using Ubuntu One file services extensively on a free account while at university to backup my assignments, projects and whatnot. I used the service because for me it was better than the Dropbox app and it integrated nicely in Unity (though that could have changed in the mean time, I haven't checked it in a while).

This being said, it did have its warts (for example sometimes when uploading a file the app hung for no reason; there was even one time when I had some files reverted to an older version).

I understand their decision and I think it is better to discontinue a service than to keep it running without improving it. I guess it's time to switch...

You could try SugarSync? It's fairly flexible and, if you're the type of person who can stomach it, works flawlessly under wine. There are solid native mobile apps and a good web interface, too.

> and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu

What do you mean? I used it for years on both Ubuntu and Fedora, never had an issue.

Same here, no issues for me on several machines, for several years.

To be honest, its been a long time (years) since I've given it a serious try. I had problems in the top bar, it wouldn't start up properly, often freezing, and I would get errors frequently trying to access it. I don't know if these errors were with the drop box client or on my end.

Google Drive's app on Mac is rubbish. No progress indication for uploads - yes! that basic feature is missing. You just get a tiny icon in the menu bar that flickers to indicate progress, and you are none the wiser. Google really are the "me too" company.

Why the downvotes? Surely a program that is meant to be uploading and downloading and keeping directories in sync with an external system over a variable speed link (my Internet connection) needs to indicate what it is doing and how far along it is in doing that? A "I'm doing it!" indication isn't enough, because if I shut down the Mac and wander off and expect to have files on Drive but it had finished uploading, I have no way of knowing which of many (possibly huge) files it had uploaded. I have to guess.

The web interface gives a progress indication, so why not the native application? It's very very poor.

You could try ownCloud, though you have to go through setting it up (and have somewhere to run it). There are hosted solutions but I don't know how good they are.

I'm in the your boat too, it's really a pity

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