"Unlimited" alternatives to Google Drive, what are the options?

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keep an eye on your enterprise email, I just noticed this today

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But then in the admin panel this is shown at the top

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So with that said, does anyone have a spot available with dropbox? Really don't want to take on a full account of 3 spots if I don't have to. Willing to jump whatever hoops folks would like me to jump to prove they won't be left holding the bag.

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Did they send you an email at 60 days or you just noticed the countdown beginning at 53?

I know is coming soon, but I still haven't received any mail/message/warning anywhere, I'm checking almost daily.

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As it stands right now, they haven't sent me anything official. Mind you, it's possinle that if they sent it to my "actual" email address, the day-to-day email I use that it's burried somewhere. But I did look for something from them and only thing I can see is a receipt for my payment on the 1st or 2nd of June. Other then that, theres no official statement from them.. And that is where I'm sort of questioning things here, is this my 60 days notice or not? I feel like there should have been something sent to me, no? I'm curious what others have received..

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They are sending an email with notice, but it seems not to everyone affected……

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If you have not received the email yet, then it isn't. Once you receive the first email, that's when the countdown of the 60 days starts.

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I would absolutely agree with you, "legally" speaking anyhow.. This is what I will wait for before making any major rash decissions. But eithe way, time to look for a few decent guys to group together for dropbox. Doesn't matter if it's under my name or theirs, if you want to get in on dropbox or have a spot available for someone reliable who pays their bills on time (and of course, you're not trying to take advantage of people by trying to inflate the price of the service ) - then please, let me know!

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Not a guess, btw. I received the email on May 24, and the 60-day grace period ends on July 23.

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no, I didn't mean that it was... I'm just getting mixed results. Alot of folks telling me that emails aren't always being sent, that the timer on the top of the page is what counts. Not sure about you, but if a company wants to cancel a service that I pay for, specifically one as sensitive as what google is selling, then they'd darn well better send me a notice in writting. Or it ain't happening lol!

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Oh, they will. I'm just saying it's from that moment that the grace period starts. During those 60 days, you can still upload and do everything you can right now. I haven't been impacted in any way.

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sweet, that's good to know! Thanks so much for the heads up!

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I have monthly slots open for $35 if you wanted to join. Checkout my post if you're interested.

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Well, they put the Dropbox bundle back again, even after they gave refunds to some customers, any news on that side?

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I don't think people can rely on them for any kind of sensitive data any longer unless is something can afford to lost in the near term.

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Has anyone tried requesting more storage from Google? I have seen some references to people contacting support and being told they can request 5TB per user every 90 days as long as you have a minimum of 5 users.

I have not tried it but two scenarios that might still provide value depending on how you look at it.

  1. Buy 5 users total to give you 25TB, request more storage to get 50TB. Every 90 days request another 25TB storage until your storage limit is above your actual used storage so you can write to it again. You would have to cover the cost for that period of time without being able to write new data, this assumes they keep it as read only past 60 days. For me this would take about 9 months to be able to write to the storage again assuming they continue to allow increases.

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  1. Buy enough users to cover your total used storage or just below it for 1 month and request more storage, then cancel all but 5 users and see what happens. This is out of my budget to try unfortunately but it could be a quick way if it works to gain a large quota increase and not have to wait 90 days for 25TB increments.

It would still be economical for me and i bet a lot of other users here to pay for 5 users and only be able to increase the storage by 25TB every 90 days if the current limit matched the actual used storage. Not really an alternative but curious if anyone has tried anything else or has any other ideas to continue to use google drive for large amounts of storage as the alternatives are pretty limited.

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I can confirm they provide 5TB per user.

If I had known this previously I would have added more than 4 additional users before requesting as the 50TB allotment I ended up with wasn't enough to cover my usage. After requesting the increase I then removed the 4 users and my allotment only dropped to 30TB so it seems the 5TB addition is to the account and not assigned to the user.

It seems the best option so far is to simply migrate to a Dropbox Business account...

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i want 1 slot. please send a message

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Which of the “unlimited” cloud storage options scan files for Hashes to detect/remove files from accounts?

In this thread I’ve read that box doesn’t do that. In my own experience Google Workspace doesn’t do this. What about Dropbox and OneDrive?

Another related question for me is if the service is purchased from an EU country, would scanning my personal files to match to existing hashes be allowed? I tried to read their terms but I'm not able to parse out this detail.

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Can't comment regarding OneDrive however Dropbox most certainly does.

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Google does, but only cares/take action if you share your files

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Does Dropbox also only care if it is shared or even when it is not shared?