{"id":29631,"date":"2020-07-30T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29631"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:17:45","slug":"keeping-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/keeping-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2020\/7\/im-keeping-dropbox\">David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2020\/7\/im-keeping-dropbox\">\n<p>iCloud Drive and sharing have not failed me. On the contrary, they have worked better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is those instances where I am not in control. For example, I have many clients who have never heard of iCloud Drive and do not own Macs. They have, however, all heard of and installed Dropbox. When you work in a service industry, adopting a technology that requires your clients to change their technology never works.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I did not install the Dropbox app on my laptop but instead use their web interface when I need to access my Dropbox storage. It cuts me out of a lot of automation, and it is generally slower, but I can avoid its intrusive install this way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/05\/10\/icloud-drive-deleted-files\/\">Bradley Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/05\/10\/icloud-drive-deleted-files\/\">\n<p>I love iCloud Drive, and I&rsquo;ve been using it as my primary file storage method for a couple of years at this point. [&#8230;]  The only thing I am not using is the legacy shared folders I have in Dropbox. My biggest complaint about iCloud Drive is that the deleted file restoration pales in comparison to Dropbox.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/macos-10-15-4\/\">macOS 10.15.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/trusting-icloud-drive\/\">Trusting iCloud Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/meet-the-new-dropbox\/\">Meet the New Dropbox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sparks: iCloud Drive and sharing have not failed me. On the contrary, they have worked better than I expected. [&#8230;] The trouble is those instances where I am not in control. For example, I have many clients who have never heard of iCloud Drive and do not own Macs. They have, however, all heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-30T20:17:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"e87ee1f7-a2c4-4159-9270-b890bd5c3e6f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-07-30T20:17:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A6H7h96LEQVmScLiQvVw-bw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,913,30,1666],"class_list":["post-29631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud-drive","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29632,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631\/revisions\/29632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}