I have some Shared Drives from an old Gsuite account of mine. If you would like to have a secondary place to put your data, feel free to contact me (encryption is required of course).
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Are you still getting unlimited storage somehow with the shared drives? Have you gotten any notices about impending limitations?
so I'm now in tnto the last month (my account goes into suspension in October). In all setups I'd be over the maximum, I'm wondering if there's a difference in outcome (i.e. data being available just not being able to dad anything vs being auto pruned)?
i.e. if the data would stay available at the $12 a month plan, I could be willing to maintain it (and if it disappear at some point in the future, so be it, but it could be worth me maintaining it for $12 a month for as long as it lasts) or would I need a more expensive plan?
I've been using the past month to put in a plan to mirror it locally (36*14TB HD in storage servers were setup at home for just this need and data has been copying off, and in the next week or two, I should have all that I care off (also noting, that the 2TB a day download limit seems to not exist for me at the moment, wouldn't have been able to accomplish this if it did), but it still be nice to keep it cloud available for as long as I can.
thoughts?
My account has been frozen since the beginning of August and I can still download my files and access them. Just still paying to keep them up basically.
How? I was also on G-Suite and was forced to Workspace.
Most likely their problem is they have contracts with big companies/enterprise which do not like companies changing their terms of service. Dropbox was smart as those contracts use "customized" plans so most likely those remain unlimited. My guess they are trying to find a way to differentiate types of accounts and most likely will end up unlimited and just move big companies to custom plans that still offer unlimited.
I know some companies would scream and throw their payroll lawyers to them if they change the terms of a long term agreement one day, so most likely they decided to limit the influx of data this way. I can't imagine Box having the resources to really support unlimited like Google did or Dropbox tried to for like 3 months.
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At Google it was 10TB / running 24 hours
for some reason I thought it was 2TB a day, but as I'm not hitting it now, that makes more sense. but it makes me wonder how I ever hit it (did get errors). even at 1gbps, one maybe hits it if one is maxing it out the whole time with zero overhead. I guess it could have been per file errors, but I was hitting files relatively randomly in trying to copy locally.
Whoa how does your account have 5000 PB quota lmao?
For years there were accounts on ebay with google edu or google non-profit drive access, is this still a thing?
And now for the "non rude-AF" answer: unfortunately Google EDU accounts are long gone. I had one from my alma-matter for over 6 years and it stopped working at the beginning of this year, reportedly after Google tried to charge the Uni hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for the privilege.
That was for an old account, so I bet no new accounts are possible.
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PSA: Box accesses now seem to be erroring out with "429 request rate limit exceeded" errors on READS (ie, downloads):
rclone cat BOX_REMOTE:small_previously_uploaded_file.txt
Failed to open: can't open: Error "rate_limit_exceeded" (429): Request rate limit exceeded, please try again later
2023/09/08 09:18:10 Failed to cat: can't open: Error "rate_limit_exceeded" (429): Request rate limit exceeded, please try again later
So it's not just a matter of being out of disk space and lying about it -- instead, Box seems to be in full-blown melt-down.
I'm very happy I still have all my files in their original locations, or else Box would be virtually holding them hostage -- and without a ransom.
In case anyone has any unique copies of any data in Box -- I strongly suggest you make a local copy FAST, while you still can.
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Oh, that is strange
I have tested it very quick from a mount with copy
It is not fast
But its working for me atm
Dropbox at the same time and same file
I think Box is treating every account separately (perhaps a script they run periodically), e.g. when a lot of folks here were reporting 429 errors on uploads, I was able to upload normally -- but right now can't even download, much less upload.
But people should be aware that, just like it's happening to me now, Box can and will eventually block READ access to their data -- this is IME much worse than any other provider, even Google in all its ignominy, ever did.
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Yeah, there is somehow no “rule” they follow, I cannot upload anything since 1st September. And I have only 986 GB on my box space. Which I odd, as most of it was uploaded on the last 2 days of August ofc,
I would be really surprised if this is legal, even just according to their TOS (that doesn't necessarily follow the law).
Astonishing...
Basically box is useless for me for 10 days. Even though I havnt reached any their limits.
UPDATE: more than 3 days later, and I still can't access my data: all read attempts still return the same "429 request rate limit exceeded" error.
I opened a ticket with Box support when the problem started:
Hello Box Support,
Right now and since early this morning, we can't upload NOR DOWNLOAD anything from our Box account. Both uploads AND DOWNLOADS fail with the same "(429): Request rate limit exceeded, please try again later".
This is REALLY SERIOUS as it means Box effectively is blocking our access to our data!
Please fix it ASAP!
And here's their response:
We have noticed that you have continued to violate the Box Fair Use Policy, specifically downloads, section 3.
https://www.box.com/en-gb/legal/fairusepolicy
Please understand that if you'd like to have the Rate Limit lifted then you can reach out to cancel@box.com with the subject line of "Fair Use Policy" and we will provide you with 30 daos to remove your content.
So, adding insult to injury, the only "option" they give me to allow READ access back to my data is for me to CANCEL the account, upon which they will then provide 30 days to get my data out. That is, they are DEFINITELY holding my data for ransom, and the ransom is for me to get the heck away. So that's what I'm going to do.
Box has been for me a complete waste of time, money and effort.
Whoever is reading this, do yourself a favor and don't give them the chance to do the same for you, or if you are like me and already did, pull the plug on them as fast as possible lest you waste even more of your time, money and effort.
EDIT: tagging @left1000 as per the other thread.
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Box.com should be glad to lose you as a customer. They also don't take your files hostage or for some ransom.
You simply failed to read ToS and related documents. It clearly states in the Fair Use Policy what the limits are. If they haven't enforced it before that's just some extra service they gave away.
There are some options:
You follow FUP.
You ask/pay for higher limits.
You cancel and quit.
But stop defaming a company that did nothing wrong especially when you are the one breaking FUP.
Just for your own sake. In some countries you can get sued for this behavior.
In the end you "wasted your time" by yourself.
Just a heads up - please keep things civil. People responding to each other and then marking the other person's initial response as inappropriate but still responding and the circle continues.
Going to lock the thread shortly as this is moving into non productive.
Please be nice.
Thanks
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