One Drive - Am I the Last Person Using Dropbox for Business

[KootK]

Just a poll here. Is everybody using OneDrive for cloud collaboration with clients?

I'm still rocking Dropbox just because I was an early adopter and I detest change in all of its myriad forms. And my personal & business files are not as separate as they probably ought to be...

But, lately, I seem to be the only consultant using Dropbox and that doesn't feel great. The $$ are of no consequence either way of course. I mostly just don't want to switch over and have to switch to something else any time soon.

Yes, I'm a fossil.

 

[phamENG]

One Drive here. But mostly because it's easier. Comes with my email hosting...

 

[SinStrucEng]

We exclusively use iDrive.

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[KootK]

Comes with my email hosting...

Thanks. It comes with my hosting too, I'd just have to top it up nominally.

Unfortunately, my hosting is GoDaddy and we don't get along so I'm loathe to pay them more.

GoDaddy... if only they had but a single neck that I could get my hands around.

 

[Harbringer80]

We use Dropbox and probably 60-70% of our clients and other consultants use Dropbox too.

It might be a regional thing.

 

[RWW0002]

I can't stand Onedrive for their aggressive tactics (moving windows "my documents" desktop and photos files automatically to onedrive forcing many users to quickly ruin out of "free" space, reinstalling after windows updates, etc..) If it is up to me no computer in my office will ever use onedrive. Google searches of solutions to these problems tells me I am not alone in my disdain.

That being said, we are using Sharefile (also a bit antiquated) and looking for a better, or at least more cost effective, solution.

I use dropbox for personal use but piggyback on my wife's storage.

 

[jerseyshore]

We use OneDrive for same reasons as pham said. I have had a recent issue that is renaming word docs to temporary name/ folder while in them, but otherwise easy to use.

Very few people we work with still use Dropbox I've noticed. Mostly old timers. Smaller archs use Google Drive usually since they just utilize free gmail.

We only use Google Drive desktop to backup OneDrive.

 

[EngDM]

Our larger clients use Viewpoint or Procore, or Dropbox. For smaller clients we just get sent PDF's via email and save them on our server.

 

[DoubleStud]

I am 1 man company. I just use google. I get 1 custom domain email, simple website, google drive. I put all of my project files in the google drive. It is saving them on my local drive but automatically sync to google drive. I can make any file or folder shareable to anyone if I choose to. I can access my file on my phone, ipad easily.

 

[XR250]

I prefer to just have PDF's emailed. Most of my customer's who do not do this use Dropbox though.

 

[RWW0002]

I'm thinking about bringing back my .ftp site.. Then I'll really look oldschool.

Many clients on the contractor side use Procore or Autodesk Const Cloud or similar for submittal and RFI exchange. I am finding myself needing to send files larger than email can handle much less often these days.

 

[Greenalleycat]

We use Dropbox for Business so definitely not the only ones
I use Google Drive for my personal files / side hustle job files
They are both great and shit in different ways, I don't think there's much reason to go either way

I avoid OneDrive though as I have a theory that everything Microsoft produces starts tolerable then gets worse as the only "improvements" that they ever make are reductions to the usability and performance of their products..

 

[Tomfh]

We have some PM clients now insisting on Teams Portal. It’s horrible.

 

[ResidentialStructGuy]

We usually directly attach PDF's. When the files are too large, we use Micrsoft Sharepoint.

 

[IDS]

I use Onedrive because you get plenty of space as part of Office and it's reasonably easy to use, although there are plenty of things I don't like about it.

I briefly used Dropbox when it first came out, but I really dislike it and try to avoid it as far as possible.

I'd say the majority of files are still transmitted by e-mail, but this is becoming increasingly difficult for any Excel files with VBA enabled, or any .exe file.

 

[NorthCivil]

in my area i see all kinds of file transfer. Autodesk, we-transfer, google drive, dropbox, microsoft.
I personally use microsoft onedrive, as 1TB of storage comes with the basic business subscription (word, excel, outlook etc) which i need anyway.
not long ago at the offices i used to work at before i went solo, there was always server rooms that were humming, tech guys coming around to fiddle with them, overnight backups happening etc. Glad the cloud does all that now.

 

[271828]

I used Dropbox until a couple of years ago. It worked fine. I switched to a end-to-end encrypted cloud.

I find OneDrive to be pretty irritating.

 

[MintJulep]

We use DropBox.

I like OneDrive's collaboration features and automatic version controls. Both are better than DropBox.