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Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

63 points · 112 comments · simonebrunozzi

hjkl0 · 1789889885 · focus · HN ↗
What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.
1. simongray · 1789890011 · focus · HN ↗
  Self-hosted Seafile + Tailscale works great for me.
2. NietTim · 1789890487 · focus · HN ↗
  If you only have ios and mac clients why not icloud?
3. LeoPanthera · 1789890516 · focus · HN ↗
  iCloud Drive is the obvious choice.
  1. haunter · 1789896015 · focus · HN ↗
    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.
  2. fg137 · 1789904058 · focus · HN ↗
    Last time I checked, there was no file history, which basically meant it's useless to me.
  3. prodigycorp · 1789908325 · focus · HN ↗
    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.
    LeoPanthera · 1789929057 · focus · HN ↗
    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?
    prodigycorp · 1789987725 · focus · HN ↗
    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.
4. ascorbic · 1789891185 · focus · HN ↗
  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
  1. microtonal · 1789895553 · focus · HN ↗
    Brilliant :). Since this is currently going to woosh for younger visitors: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
    simonebrunozzi · 1789940522 · focus · HN ↗
    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.
5. [deleted] · 1789891640 · focus · HN ↗
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6. NordStreamYacht · 1789893120 · focus · HN ↗
  Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS.
  Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.
7. shaunpud · 1789895885 · focus · HN ↗
  Filen
  1. swat535 · 1789906715 · focus · HN ↗
    PCloud is another one I like. Been using it for a few years and am happy with it.
8. onel · 1789896515 · focus · HN ↗
  Self-host. NextCloud on a moose instance <a href="https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud" rel="nofollow">https://mooseos.com/store/nextcloud
  1 click install, daily backups, no need to manage anything
  1. rjh29 · 1789898446 · focus · HN ↗
    Dropbox is 2TB for the same price as your 40GB. Cool idea though.
  2. onel · 1789899439 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, definitely not 1-to-1 comparison as moose has a VM underneath and you can run pretty much anything
  3. throwaway270925 · 1789901160 · focus · HN ↗
    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!
    <a href="https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
    onel · 1789902150 · focus · HN ↗
    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
9. Scaled · 1789927852 · focus · HN ↗
  Open source SyncThing
10. coderonline0 · 1790557360 · focus · HN ↗
  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/

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