Moving Dropbox to iCloud

[graylocks]

I've been paying $11.99 a month to Dropbox for 2 TB. I am using only 13GB.

I have a 50GB iCloud account of which I'm using 44GB. For 200GB iCloud is $2.99. Seems a no brainer moneywise to move everything over to iCloud.

Is there a downside I'm missing? Is sharing files from iCloud as easy as with Dropbox especially if the user is Windows or not particularly internet savvy? Is it going to be as simple as a drag and drop copy of folders on my iMac?

Decades ago I bought my first mac. It had 40mb of storage. The salesperson suggested I upgrade to 80mb. I laughed and said Who the heck needs 80mb of storage? In less than a year I was looking into applications that would shrink the size of stored data.

[Tiangou]

1. Yes, you can drag-drop files to move them into a folder under the iCloud Drive. And there are iCloud tools for Windows users.

2. The main downside is that iCloud is slow, intermittently fails to connect/upload/download, can't be uniquely configured to keep some stuff on your drive and other stuff in the cloud, and like all Apple cloud services is wholly unreliable. Additionally, Dropbox has lots of options for sharing and editing files and has a full-featured app and web-interface for previewing and even editing files while iCloud has limited sharing features that are so clunky as to be useless if you're not sharing to someone on your own family plan.

3. The larger downside is that you get no tech support for when you double-click on a file and it doesn't download from iCloud and open. But you get pretty good support for technical problems when you have a paid Dropbox plan.

[special]

Does your son use cloud storage? if you trust each other, you can use the same account as long as you don't look in each other's folders and share the cost.

[graylocks]

special wrote:
Does your son use cloud storage? if you trust each other, you can use the same account as long as you don't look in each other's folders and share the cost.

i did finally convince him to get a paid 50GB iCloud because he's one of those users who takes and never deletes pictures. it's best not to mix and match with some things. at some point i'll even wean him off the shared spotify account.

[vision63]

All yo files get stuck in Barstow by the railroad tracks.