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Have you had any sync problems with OneDrive or Google Drive? After switching to OneDrive from Dropbox six months ago I've continuously had problems with OneDrive syncing correctly and resolving conflicts by silently dumping a copy of the file into the directory for me to sort out later. Worse it does this silently so I often don't know a sync conflict happened.

Trying out Zocalo now with better results but was curious if anyone else encountered this issue with OneDrive or if my experience was unique.

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I had all sorts of sync problems with OneDrive so I canned it. I now keep a central SVN repository with all my stuff in it.

I use svn because TortoiseSVN tooling allows diff/merge of documents, it is centralised so there is a single source of truth and it works over WevDAV/http so i can access it on my mobile device if need be (I avoid this where possible and just use it as a tether).

I used Google Drive extensively, but found the desktop client lacking reliability. I switched to Syncdocs [1] which syncs to Google Drive more robustly and is way faster. Google's storage pricing beats Dropbox, but their client software does not.

[1] http://syncdocs.com

I can't remember having those sync issues. I do remember a couple of times it was hard to tell if it had finished synching as it seemed to be doing nothing visually, that's the only issue I remember.

Will look into Zocalo to see what they offer.

it depends if your talking about one drive for business or personal.

OneDrive for business is built on top of SharePoint and is well known to have a multitude of limitations and issues and I would never recommend anyone use it.

Onedrive personal I hear is much more reliable but I've not had any personal experience with it.

I use Google drive and have found it to be very reliable, when i have the odd sync issue (fails to sync 1-5 files out of 3000 files/150gb) i just click retry and successfully uploads them.

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