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I do use Google Drive some, but the overall usability of it is a bit painful. They have a lot of nice features for sharing folders/files with others, but the organization of it's web UI is just painful to use at times.

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Mega offers more storage for free, I don't know about ease of use.

I'd be worried about Mega being shut down by the government.

Or even worse, backdoored. Considering how strong the government went down on the old mega, I'm surprised they would allow Kim Dotcom to create another service, especially one that was designed with encryption in mind.

'Encryption in mind' is a bad way of putting it. Most of Mega's much spoken of encryption is done in your browser.

For some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?

You know... you asking that question made me look at it and try to figure out why I don't like it. I think it actually my lack of organization with it. "My Drive" and "Shared with me" section has lots of docs/spreadsheets that I don't need anymore and they clutter the view, I just never thought to remove them to clean it up.

So really, it's my own lack of housekeeping that's bothering me. Time to clean up my Google Drive. Thanks.

Glad I could help! :)

Personally, I've had endless sync issues with Google drive. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'retry' feature if it can't sync a file other than restarting the service.

If you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.

Could be a weird bug. I have a lot of files in my drive and don't have any issues so far. My drive is set up to sync on windows and mac. Also use it on my android and web.

What about the sync client?

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive

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