Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well.
I have been using Dropbox and I have had no problems with it. I am still using the free service because my data needs aren't that great. I have Dropbox links on all my devices from laptops up to my cell phone. It has been a life saver for me and I have used it to pass files between home and school but also I have used the public folder to pass on lectures when one of my instructors wanted to use my recording of the class. My one brush with One drive did not go so well. I had lots of accessibility problems trying to use it but that was years ago and it probably has improved. So I have been sticking with Dropbox. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thanks Greg. I have been using Dropbox for years as well and on average, I have no complaints. However, I need to be sure that One drive or even Google drive aren't going to give me a better system. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Greg B. Sent: 06 January 2015 16:59 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. I have been using Dropbox and I have had no problems with it. I am still using the free service because my data needs aren't that great. I have Dropbox links on all my devices from laptops up to my cell phone. It has been a life saver for me and I have used it to pass files between home and school but also I have used the public folder to pass on lectures when one of my instructors wanted to use my recording of the class. My one brush with One drive did not go so well. I had lots of accessibility problems trying to use it but that was years ago and it probably has improved. So I have been sticking with Dropbox. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thanks Greg. I have been using Dropbox for years as well and on average, I have no complaints. However, I need to be sure that One drive or even Google drive aren't going to give me a better system. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Greg B. Sent: 06 January 2015 16:59 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. I have been using Dropbox and I have had no problems with it. I am still using the free service because my data needs aren't that great. I have Dropbox links on all my devices from laptops up to my cell phone. It has been a life saver for me and I have used it to pass files between home and school but also I have used the public folder to pass on lectures when one of my instructors wanted to use my recording of the class. My one brush with One drive did not go so well. I had lots of accessibility problems trying to use it but that was years ago and it probably has improved. So I have been sticking with Dropbox. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
DropBox is very easy to use and with the current beta release of Window-Eyes the web interface to share folders and perform other tasks works much better. It is also a great way to get content into VoiceDream on iOS devices. Vic Pereira Shared Services Canada/Services partagés Canada 9-111 Lombard Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 0T4 Vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca 204-781-5046 -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Greg B. Sent: January-06-15 10:59 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. I have been using Dropbox and I have had no problems with it. I am still using the free service because my data needs aren't that great. I have Dropbox links on all my devices from laptops up to my cell phone. It has been a life saver for me and I have used it to pass files between home and school but also I have used the public folder to pass on lectures when one of my instructors wanted to use my recording of the class. My one brush with One drive did not go so well. I had lots of accessibility problems trying to use it but that was years ago and it probably has improved. So I have been sticking with Dropbox. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
DropBox no doubt, it's been around for a while, very reliable, very responsive, syncs files instantly. I have staff having conversation on the phone and files are synced in the matter of seconds between two geographical locations. I have tried one drive, mozy sync, and nothing beets dropbox. There is no worse frustration when employees call you up because files are not synchronized, especially top level management... Microsoft keeps changing its plans for one drive every now and then, in the beginning, Microsoft sync, then sky drive, and now one drive, who knows what's in the future... Staff get very confused when things are changing quite frequently. Accessibility: both of them have pluses and minuses, but overall both seem to be quite accessible and manageable with JFW or NVDA. Can't say anything though about the top dropbox package for admins because I'm not there yet, do not need like 1 TB of space just yet and portal to manage all the accounts. Both of them work great in windows explore, the start menu app for one drive is somewhat gloomy in windows 8, never use it. Dropbox works on the domain account, but will not work properly with roaming profiles, something to consider if roaming profiles are in place. I have upgraded our server to win2k12 R2 last summer, folder redirection and no roaming profiles and dropbox works perfect, can't say much about one drive, do not use it at work. Do not remember exact numbers for 100 GB of dropbox space, but it was something what I purchased and never looked back. Hope this helps at least a bit. Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thanks Anatoliy, This is very helpful. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Anatoliy Shudrya Sent: 06 January 2015 17:22 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. DropBox no doubt, it's been around for a while, very reliable, very responsive, syncs files instantly. I have staff having conversation on the phone and files are synced in the matter of seconds between two geographical locations. I have tried one drive, mozy sync, and nothing beets dropbox. There is no worse frustration when employees call you up because files are not synchronized, especially top level management... Microsoft keeps changing its plans for one drive every now and then, in the beginning, Microsoft sync, then sky drive, and now one drive, who knows what's in the future... Staff get very confused when things are changing quite frequently. Accessibility: both of them have pluses and minuses, but overall both seem to be quite accessible and manageable with JFW or NVDA. Can't say anything though about the top dropbox package for admins because I'm not there yet, do not need like 1 TB of space just yet and portal to manage all the accounts. Both of them work great in windows explore, the start menu app for one drive is somewhat gloomy in windows 8, never use it. Dropbox works on the domain account, but will not work properly with roaming profiles, something to consider if roaming profiles are in place. I have upgraded our server to win2k12 R2 last summer, folder redirection and no roaming profiles and dropbox works perfect, can't say much about one drive, do not use it at work. Do not remember exact numbers for 100 GB of dropbox space, but it was something what I purchased and never looked back. Hope this helps at least a bit. Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thanks Anatoliy, This is very helpful. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Anatoliy Shudrya Sent: 06 January 2015 17:22 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. DropBox no doubt, it's been around for a while, very reliable, very responsive, syncs files instantly. I have staff having conversation on the phone and files are synced in the matter of seconds between two geographical locations. I have tried one drive, mozy sync, and nothing beets dropbox. There is no worse frustration when employees call you up because files are not synchronized, especially top level management... Microsoft keeps changing its plans for one drive every now and then, in the beginning, Microsoft sync, then sky drive, and now one drive, who knows what's in the future... Staff get very confused when things are changing quite frequently. Accessibility: both of them have pluses and minuses, but overall both seem to be quite accessible and manageable with JFW or NVDA. Can't say anything though about the top dropbox package for admins because I'm not there yet, do not need like 1 TB of space just yet and portal to manage all the accounts. Both of them work great in windows explore, the start menu app for one drive is somewhat gloomy in windows 8, never use it. Dropbox works on the domain account, but will not work properly with roaming profiles, something to consider if roaming profiles are in place. I have upgraded our server to win2k12 R2 last summer, folder redirection and no roaming profiles and dropbox works perfect, can't say much about one drive, do not use it at work. Do not remember exact numbers for 100 GB of dropbox space, but it was something what I purchased and never looked back. Hope this helps at least a bit. Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
One Drive for Business has unlimited storage for my three Office 365 accounts I have some sync issues now and then but I do also with my personal One Drive. Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEKTECHNOLOGY
From: d@digitaldarragh.com To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:25:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive.
Thanks Anatoliy,
This is very helpful.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Anatoliy Shudrya Sent: 06 January 2015 17:22 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive.
DropBox no doubt, it's been around for a while, very reliable, very responsive, syncs files instantly. I have staff having conversation on the phone and files are synced in the matter of seconds between two geographical locations.
I have tried one drive, mozy sync, and nothing beets dropbox. There is no worse frustration when employees call you up because files are not synchronized, especially top level management...
Microsoft keeps changing its plans for one drive every now and then, in the beginning, Microsoft sync, then sky drive, and now one drive, who knows what's in the future... Staff get very confused when things are changing quite frequently.
Accessibility: both of them have pluses and minuses, but overall both seem to be quite accessible and manageable with JFW or NVDA. Can't say anything though about the top dropbox package for admins because I'm not there yet, do not need like 1 TB of space just yet and portal to manage all the accounts. Both of them work great in windows explore, the start menu app for one drive is somewhat gloomy in windows 8, never use it.
Dropbox works on the domain account, but will not work properly with roaming profiles, something to consider if roaming profiles are in place. I have upgraded our server to win2k12 R2 last summer, folder redirection and no roaming profiles and dropbox works perfect, can't say much about one drive, do not use it at work.
Do not remember exact numbers for 100 GB of dropbox space, but it was something what I purchased and never looked back.
Hope this helps at least a bit.
Anatoliy
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive.
Hello,
I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive.
Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think?
I only need about 10GB.
By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well.
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Hi, I moved all my cloud stuff to Office 365 from a bunch of different providers but never quite managed to get rid of Dropbox. Main issue for me is sharing between Dropbox accounts. I have an unlimited OneDrive for business account, but I don't know whether it is me, but I can't get a folder sync setup to it as easy as I do in Dropbox, but I think this is coming. I personally think MS needs to sort out the OneDrive product and somehow unify their authentication services across their products so we can implement sharing etc more easily. I am always looking to replace Dropbox with OneDrive for Business so if I get anywhere I will update you. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: 06 January 2015 16:02 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, I moved all my cloud stuff to Office 365 from a bunch of different providers but never quite managed to get rid of Dropbox. Main issue for me is sharing between Dropbox accounts. I have an unlimited OneDrive for business account, but I don't know whether it is me, but I can't get a folder sync setup to it as easy as I do in Dropbox, but I think this is coming. I personally think MS needs to sort out the OneDrive product and somehow unify their authentication services across their products so we can implement sharing etc more easily. I am always looking to replace Dropbox with OneDrive for Business so if I get anywhere I will update you. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: 06 January 2015 16:02 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
OneDrive by default will give you 15 Gig where Dropbox does not -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:02 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dropbox verses one drive. Hello, I'm looking for practical, cost and accessibility comparasons of Dropbox and One drive. Have any of you used boht services? What one is better do you think? I only need about 10GB. By the way, I would sell my right arm for a decent cloud based note taker as well. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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