Dropbox vs GDrive vs Skydrive vs Evernote vs CloudHQ?

[EnderJE]

Anyone have an opinion?

I've got all of them, but I'm thinking of trimming back.

The only problem is that I can see the value and allure of each one. I like the idea of a local copy of my files and being able to update them via a web interface. I also like the tag capabilities of Evernote.

Normally, I would have picked Skydrive out of the mix immediately for this, but the web interface is incredibly cumbersome.

 

[ceo]

Depends on what it is for. If it for sharing files with others, I really hate dropbox. Esp if it is sharing with more than a couple people. I would prefer google docs or some cloud based service over DB. I've used google docs and dropbox both pretty extensively and I prefer Gdocs.

 

[cindylou]

Why do you hate dropbox? I have not tried gdocs yet. I am going to now

 

[Dial_tone]

Of those I only have Dropbox and I've had no issues with it. I also have space on ubuntu One.

 

[EnderJE]

Why do you hate dropbox? I have not tried gdocs yet. I am going to now

It's not that I truly hate Dropbox (or any of the other services). It's that they all fulfill some niche usage and I'd like to consolidate them to a single service.

For example, the only thing that I "hate" in Dropbox is that there is no web client to edit Office documents and no tagging ability. The thing that I hate in GDocs is that there is no local copy of the file and no tagging ability. The thing that I hate in Evernote is the size limitation.

 

[AFeedz]

Depends on what it is for. If it for sharing files with others, I really hate dropbox. Esp if it is sharing with more than a couple people. I would prefer google docs or some cloud based service over DB. I've used google docs and dropbox both pretty extensively and I prefer Gdocs.

Same.

I'll take Google Docs over Dropbox any day of the week, by far.

 

[EnderJE]

For those that would take Google Docs over Dropbox, isn't it a concern that you don't have a local copy of the files? I understand that not having a local copy is fine 99.9% of the time, but the fear is that one time that you need it...

 

[Keith1]

I really like sugar sync
But dropbox is good to

 

[AFeedz]

For those that would take Google Docs over Dropbox, isn't it a concern that you don't have a local copy of the files? I understand that not having a local copy is fine 99.9% of the time, but the fear is that one time that you need it...

Everything I do I have backed up elsewhere. I just really dislike Dropbox.

This has nothing to do with that, but I'd just like to throw out there that Google Forms is pretty sick for survey purposes. It gives some pretty legit options and reporting for a free service.

 

[ceo]

For those that would take Google Docs over Dropbox, isn't it a concern that you don't have a local copy of the files? I understand that not having a local copy is fine 99.9% of the time, but the fear is that one time that you need it...

dropbox is fine if I'm sharing with one or two people and all the files are necessary to me (and there aren't a billion of them). If there are 1000 files and I'm only concerned with 10 of them, the fuck if I want all that shit on my HD!

If I want a local copy of something from GDocs I just go to File>Download As... and I save a fuggin copy to my HD.