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Cloud Advice
I’ve given up on iCloud. If it worked as advertised it would be great. It’s too fragile. On Friday 60gb of my data disappeared without explanation. I managed to recover it from the back end but you’re only able to recover around 300-400 files at a time so for 100,000 files this meant a considerable amount of time spent clicking ‘refresh’ and hoping it would do its job. It coughed and spluttered but just about got there in the end.
Dropbox seems pretty reliable but I’m concerned about the need to zip everything before you upload.
Mega - isn’t that like a front for a criminal organisation? And if so does that make them more or less likely to provide a reliable service.
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That seems like a good option to be honest. A company like Microsoft that’s a bit less snobbish probably has better products in this area.
I am using Nextcloud for storage and sharing. Something in the EU and without data mining attached to it. I had it running on my own server first, but I am now with Hetzner Storageshare, their managed Nextcloud solution. It’s cheaper than a VPS and I do not have to administer another server: https://hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
That looks good.
My main criterion is that I want something which can be read easily in the cloud by programmes like sononym.
I get that means temporarily downloading the file but XO seems to play nicely with Dropbox in this respect.
Sadly there are not many apps with native Nextcloud/Owncloud or WebDav support. The Nextcloud client on iOS will need to download a local copy of the file for it to be accessible via Files App. For me this is not such a big problem as I prefer to work offline when making music, and my main uses for Nextcloud are backup, sharing and syncing devices. You can always delete unused files from the local cache and download them again when you need them.
Ok gonna try!
What about an external drive , OWC or Samsung?
Would like to know this as well, something that uploads wireless to a drive would be interesting.
So when using other cloud storage do you just route it to the files app? I’ve never considered using something else
Update on this:
They’re all terrible.
Honestly. I’m shocked by the level of uselessness.
iCloud: 100gb of my files disappear for no reason. I head to the restore files function. It works, but although it shows you 5000 files at a time it can only do 10-15. So three days clicking.
Dropbox: ok it’s not too bad. Slow. Occasionally stops showing you the options it should show you when you control click. I don’t have too many more complaints.
Google Drive: can’t decide whether things are synced or not. Useless for anything that involves swift transfers of small files. I’m using it to backup zips, the upload speed is probably the best.
Wetrans: thought it was good but try feeding it a zip of more than 10GB, which in today’s world is nothing, and it won’t help you.
What was the response from Apple support?
@semtek01 : when you had the iCloud issue, did you have folders with large numbers of files directly contained in them?
Essentially the problem is GDPR (as far as I understand it). Apple or Dropbox or whoever can’t go into your files under any account any more to see what’s wrong. So what they did which I gather is their standard practice is clear some caches, install an anti virus called Malwaredrive which is good, install Omnidisc to check for any invisible remainders. But none of it worked. So they asked me to wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything. Not a problem really, a day’s work, but I refused on the grounds that I didn’t believe it would solve the problem.
So I just had to spend three days recovering all my samples five at a time in their back end.
What did shock me a bit was that I then had a subsequent call to gain some advice on how to avoid this happening again but the agent was under the impression that I still hadn’t recovered the files and he told me “they’re gone, they’re done.” Which they weren’t, of course. But this just reflects the fact that they can’t look at what’s going on behind the scenes. I thought it was callous to say that though, as they were there in the back end even then.
With regards to the number of files, thanks to the advice of a user on here everything was limited to a quantity of max 500 files per folder. I think even less. I’ll check. But I had gone through and organised everything because clearly it doesnt it like large quantities of files.
Overall though it’s disappointing and I dislike the mystery behind all of it. They often lead you on wild goose chases like for example telling you to reinstall your hd when really what is going on is that somewhere a file is corrupt, probably due to the fact they store the entire cloud on a server the size of a thumb drive no doubt to cut costs, and that file is stopping the whole thing from moving. That’s iCloud. Dropbox support also useless. Basically you’re on your own in these cloud storage streets cousin. But yeah small quantities per folder and now I’ve backed everything up on gdrive which is useless in different ways. But if you are able to use all three for different things - iCloud for moving between devices, Dropbox for backup, wetrans for sending large files zipped and gdrive for storage, you might just be ok. Lol.