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Re: Alternative To Dropbox

From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups uk.comp.homebuilt
Subject Re: Alternative To Dropbox
Date 2026-08-05 11:00 +0100
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Jeff Gaines wrote:

> Dropbox free seems to be a disaster nowadays with very, very, slow uploads.
> 
> Any suggestions for an alternative?

Given that I need to have a Microsoft365 account for Teams calls, I use 
the included 1TB of space with OneDrive, I think even free accounts get 
5GB of space, the "family packs" seem cheap enough for several people I 
know to share them ...

> If I sign up for some cloud storage 
> can I allow downloads by somebody else or would they have access to 
> everything?

You can give shared links to individual files/folders, but I tend to do 
that only minimally

> I have 2 x media files to transfer, one is 4 MB, other is 8.5 MB.
should be fine ...

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Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-05 09:36 +0000
  Re: Alternative To Dropbox Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-05 11:00 +0100
    Re: Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-05 10:36 +0000
  Re: Alternative To Dropbox Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-08-05 11:15 +0100
    Re: Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-05 10:37 +0000
  Re: Alternative To Dropbox Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-08-05 19:16 +0000
  Re: Alternative To Dropbox Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-08-06 07:12 +0100
    Re: Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 07:42 +0000
      Re: Alternative To Dropbox Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-08-06 08:58 +0100
        Re: Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 09:25 +0000
          Re: Alternative To Dropbox Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-08-06 14:25 +0100
            Re: Alternative To Dropbox "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 14:35 +0000
              Re: Alternative To Dropbox Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-08-06 16:30 +0100

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