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Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

63 points · 112 comments · simonebrunozzi

  1. hjkl0 · · focus · HN ↗
    What’s a good Dropbox alternative? Especially for Macs. Feels like they spent twenty years just making the Mac client worse.
    1. LeoPanthera · · focus · HN ↗
      iCloud Drive is the obvious choice.
      1. haunter · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
        Last time I checked, there was no file history, which basically meant it's useless to me.
      3. prodigycorp · · 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.
        1. LeoPanthera · · 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?
          1. prodigycorp · · 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.

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