[OSX-Users] Re: advice wanted

[Julian Field]

Dropbox, definitely, IMHO.

Dropbox has the best compatibility by far from what I've seen, with 
support built into many iOS apps among other things (GoodReader, 
1Password are two I use a lot).
I have a 1TB Dropbox Pro account (£79 per year I think). You don't have 
to sync all of it to every computer with the Dropbox client running on 
it, so if you have big (and/or fast-changing) chunks you don't need 
everywhere (such as at home or on machines with small disks), you can 
easily de-select certain folders (and their sub-folders) on certain 
machines.
The client (on Mac and Windows) appears flawless, and is self-upgrading 
(totally silently).
Notes for those concerned about data privacy: Dropbox data is hosted by 
Amazon S3, though file metadata is stored on Dropbox's servers. Data is 
encrypted in transit and at rest. They do *not* guarantee to only use S3 
servers in the EU.

You also already have 1TB space for free on Microsoft's OneDrive for 
Business. However, having just tested the very latest revision of the 
Mac version of their client for Physics & Astronomy, my advice is 
simple: *DON'T DO IT!!!*
The client is dreadful, has crazy limitations (very long time since I 
last hit a limit of 255 characters on the total path lengths of 
files!!!), and given 10 large files it only ever synced 3 of them.

Hope that helps,
Jules.


On 02/02/2016 14:58, Leslie Carr wrote:
> I’ve never shifted to the cloud (too ephemeral, too insecure, too slow) but I think I have to change my ways as it seems ridiculously old-fashioned to keep all my photos and music and everything on my laptop.
>
> What should I do - iCloud or DropBox? 1Tb?
>
> How do you organise your digital life?
> —
> Les
>

Jules

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