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Which should I go for Google Drive / One Drive / Box?
OnAndUp
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I'm in the process of sorting out my old computers and organising all my digital files.
Anyway along the way I seem to have amassed a collection of free cloud storage as follows!
Google Drive 65GB Total (50GB Free for Moto G! for 2 years?)
One Drive 28GB Total (long term Sky Drive user extra storage?)
Box 50GB (Free with my trusty HP Touchpad! for life?)
At the moment I have a copy of most of my photos on One Drive and a few document in Box & Google Drive.
Which is the best of the three to stick with from here on? I don't have loads of high volume stuff so think the limits would all probably be fine? I would like to be able to easily / smoothly sync it with my PC XP / W7 Netbook and also access them on my android devices.
I'm in the process of sorting out my old computers and organising all my digital files.
Anyway along the way I seem to have amassed a collection of free cloud storage as follows!
Google Drive 65GB Total (50GB Free for Moto G! for 2 years?)
One Drive 28GB Total (long term Sky Drive user extra storage?)
Box 50GB (Free with my trusty HP Touchpad! for life?)
At the moment I have a copy of most of my photos on One Drive and a few document in Box & Google Drive.
Which is the best of the three to stick with from here on? I don't have loads of high volume stuff so think the limits would all probably be fine? I would like to be able to easily / smoothly sync it with my PC XP / W7 Netbook and also access them on my android devices.
"Things can only get better.................c/o D:Ream #The 90's
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I use all of those and they all work well cross platform. I do find Box with Box sync to be really efficient and it has a nice amount of free space for good.
I use Multicloud (Click here) to use all of them, and a few more, in one place on my PC. All those little bits add upDrinking Rum before 10am makes you
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Thanks RumRat!
One thing I'm not sure of ?
I have also downloaded the Google Drive for Pc and had a bit of a go at that. Is the Google Drive folder in "my documents" stored on your PC Hard drive so you have 1 copy of stuff there and then 1 copy of the cloud too? And that's where you sync or is it just showing what is in the cloud? iykwim!"Things can only get better.................c/o D:Ream #The 90's
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To view your files off line you have to enable offline viewing. Explained here . So no they are not stored locally. I don't use it for documents personally so I'm not really an expert on all it's workings. Remember that the data allowance is combined with GMail, Picasa/Google+ pictures etc. etc..
Click here for another article about some of the plus and minus points of the various popular cloud services.Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
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