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

@Turner, thanks for keeping us updated on your testing of new providers, much appreciated!

***I am adding to this response, Support has been lackluster in providing technical results/solutions to tickets. Unless this improves, the product is currently unusable with Rclone on files over 5GB.

Sorry to hear it. So it seems Blomp isn't the way to go either, at least right now :-/

If the situation changes and whenever you try a new provider, please keep us posted, we have all learned a lot from you! :+1:

Just read the testimonials here, but to sum it up: get the hell out of Box while you can! They will suck all your money (their refund policy is dismal) then lock up your data for READING and then tell you that if you cancel, they will refund you and give you 30 days of READ access to your data -- and them will renege on the refund (will give you just a small part of all you paid them) AND on the READ access, so you're going to be out of your money AND your data.

Box.com: AVOID, AVOID, AVOID -- and if you're there yet, just get out as fast as you can!

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Thanks @CraftyClown for the detailed post. We're all very interested in hearing how things are going re:Dropbox, so please continue to keep us posted! :+1:

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Weird, I could swear that yearly prices did not have 50% for the first year and the discounted price for the first year was the standard pricing. Maybe I was dreaming about it :slight_smile:

Pricing changed.

It was $20 per TB per year. Now it is $30 but with 50% discount for the first year.

:frowning: Applicable to old customers as well?

Check with iDrive.

Bummer! That's the wrong direction! :frowning:

On my account page I still have the old pricing and it looks like if you go to their public pricing page, there is the new pricing. I havent received any news about a price increase in my email either.

This is your first or second warning. Three strikes and your account is perma banned

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One thing you could do would be to create a trakt.tv account and create lists there of stuff you would your kids to watch in the future and then give them access to it. There a tools out there that can be used to get the movies and tv shows to watch as needed. The could also see what streaming service has some of the shows and subscribe as needed and then cancel the subscriptions. I think the important part here is the curation of movies you would want them to watch and that could still be preserved even if the data can't. Just something to consider. This would only work with movies and tv shows.

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I know this thread covers a lot of different services - those of you who have had box.com issues - just curious - did you create a an "app" with a client id/secret or not

So I also got my Dropbox notice. I've checked back on my hibernating Google Workspace account that I had downgraded to their cheapest plan with a single user while I was waiting for the 90 days for the extra 5TB/user to pass. I was able to upgrade to Enterprise Standard, created 16 users, then requested the extra 5TB/user via a button press that showed up in the support chat interface (before I got to chat with a representative). It said it can take 2 days for it to be reviewed but it seems to have happened successfully pretty quickly because by the time I got to chat with someone they said it has already been applied to the account. Then I delete the extra 11 users to stay on the 5 user minimum. It retains the extra 5TBs each user got but not the original 5TB of the user account. So all is working as it has prior to all this cloud storage craziness.

Now I need to migrate a bunch of TBs back from Dropbox. I'm basically doing it in series via a VPN, cycling through the 5 accounts, by the time the fifth has uploaded its daily limit, the first account has its daily limits reset.

I hope this helps some of you.

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and 2 years later all stuff will be deleted, thats not a solution.

What do you mean by 2 years from now? Are you speaking out of upsetness how the past months have gone? If so, I very much understand your sentiment.

I mean that your 11 inactive accounts are inactive and will be deleted after 2 years. At least that was the last time I checked. Accounts that are inactive for 2 years are deleted.

The files won’t be deleted because they are not owned by anyone since they live in a shared drive. So maybe after 2 years the extra storage capacity gets reset for those deleted accounts. I guess nobody knows yet. It’ll be fun to see what happens.

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box.com is completely off the table, they are closing and refunding accounts that store a large amount of data

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Hello, I'm entering this post because I haven't found a solution for three months. I'm trying with unlimited opendrive, it's not a good solution either, right, I'm asking this so as not to waste time.

No. It's not unlimited. It has clear limits that are not communicated and the label unlimited is misleading and someone should take them to court. All fing morons.

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