Five Reasons I Went All-in With Dropbox

👍 Knowing how you use online storage will help you choose the correct provider with the correct set of features at an appropriate price.

👍 All-in with Dropbox: Five Reasons
Dropbox works on all the platforms I use: Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Android.
Dropbox synchronization is robust and efficient.
Dropbox includes file history, allowing me to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files for up to 120 days (30 days in standard plans).
Dropbox includes selective sync, meaning I don’t have to store all my Dropbox content on every one of my machines.
Dropbox, while not the cheapest alternative, is the most cost effective for me.

Chapters
0:00 Five Reasons With Dropbox
1:00 Cloud service features
4:10 1. Dropbox is everywhere I want to be.
5:00 2. Dropbox synchronization works
6:25 3. Dropbox includes 120 days of file history
8:00 4. Dropbox Professional includes selective sync
12:30 Encryption for security

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[askleonotenboom]

Cloud storage is useful, but it has many confusing and competing alternatives.

[joechamberlain]

Proper old-school computer advice from someone who really understands what they are talking about. So different from the kids, who know how to make all the fancy icons flash, but wouldn't have a clue what to do if anything went wrong.

[MikaelKKarlsson]

It was many years ago, but I dropped Dropbox when they promised not to give access to your files to third parties but were doing so.
Now One Drive system integration has just been horrible so I could never use that either. I'm sure Dropbox is superior in practice.

[stevesummerlin]

I dropped Dropbox after many years. Two reasons: Only 3 logins allowed and no encryption. I switched over to Proton Drive. PD gives me 5GB. Enough for important paperwork. Box I use for photos and PDFs (50GB). OneDrive for cell cam photos and some use of Gdrive. There are so many options. I may just buy a NAS and get off the cloud. Opinions may vary. These are mine.

[Anotherperson-mb]

Ask Leo is the best by far, safe and educational.❤

[wayneottenbreit]

I was with Dropbox for many years but then they unilaterally shut down my account - seemingly for an automated trip that no human reviewed before deleting about 300 Gb of personal files (like 20 years of family photos) and professional document. Over a year of almost daily communication with them (all initiated by me because they would not even have informed me of the deletion) and involvement of a lawyer, ended up with them denying me any recovery and being told that even though/if they made a mistake, they have so much more money than I can acquire in order to fight my claim.

[angelaballard]

Such timely advice, simply explained for non techies 🙏 from a new subscriber!

[megapangolin]

As always, Leo, first class guidance and advice. I always look for your reviews for anything with Windows 11 and Gary for my Mac. Can't beat honest experience and knowledge well presented. Thank you.

[StanWu]

Dropbox supports local P2P sync technology and also supports block-level sync, which is why Dropbox synchronization is so effective. Dropbox now owns their data center, but they did use AWS during their startup stage.

[cinemaipswich]

I have just finished building my TrueNAS server. It compresses and encrypts my data. If I were to use on-line storage, the security keys for my data would never be stored anywhere but in my home, with a copy at my family memeber's home. Always encrypt. If you give pics and video to a "cloud" vendor, can they use them? Can you afford to sue them? There is your answer.

[tizio]

I've also chosen Dropbox for pretty much the same reasons.
But I also use iDrive (backup only) and Sync (synched data with end-to-end encryption) as secondary cloud storage because one can never rely on any single cloud service to be 100% reliable nor still being available (say) 5 or 10 years from now. Dropbox has a long history and strong user base, so I expect them to still be around for the relatively long time.

[D.von.N]

Do clouds have backups of the customers' data, like copies? In case the server goes up in flames or is hit by a meteor or a terrorist attack. That as a mirror of your house getting burned down with all the hard discs you had your data on.

[democracybacksliding]

thank you I've been pulling my hair out trying to get rid of Google get off the dependency of Google cloud hate this drove me crazy you're a lifesaver thank you very well done.!!!

[mikeys]

I'm interested in how you index your photos and the people in those photos so I could search for pictures within a date range that contain my grandmother.

[leginyela]

Inner to outerr screen transfer works ok on my Fold. Just have to touch finger print security and hay ho screen transfer. Am I missing something?

[oleahmorris]

I have had multiple problems with OneDrive. It just about ate my business because of the way it syncs and I have a lot of large graphic files. I don't like the way it puts a proprietary folder on my hard drive. Does Dropbox do this?

[appeal]

How did you transfer your files from AWS to Dropbox?

[Pgan]

I once use DB for all my computers BUT DB messed up all my file names due to its lack of ability to Sync properly, so I end up "which file is Latest and Originals" I read GoogleDrive is best at Syn across devices

[deemay]

Could you do a video about using One Drive and Drop Box together? Thank you LEO

[D.von.N]

Just watched a short video how dropbox had an attack recently. Changed my password there. I haven't had any sensitive data there, but just for the sake of it. The company reset all passwords anyway, even restricted the use of API keys (had to google about API key LOL, not familiar with this technology, not a user of it).