Recently I've been extremely disappointed by dropbox to the point where I've had to reluctantly delete my account and look at alternatives. I was hoping that you guys might be able to point me at a cloud storage solution that copes well with large numbers of files (>300k) on mac at a reasonable price point + preferable allows you to manipulate large numbers of files on the server side (through a web interface or alternative.)
An important note - it's very easy to get to large numbers of files if you ever a. store open source code you're playing with in your cloud solution, b. use git (it generates a lot of files.) - so 300k+ files isn't as outlandish a number as it sounds.
Background for those that are interested -
* I noticed the client was using 100% CPU and never seemed to enter the 'synced' state. A google suggested this was due to too many files, + a reinstall/cache clear could fix. Did this.
* 1 week later - No change. Contact support and received boilerplate copy/paste replies telling me it was too many files + either remove files/use selective sync. The latter crashes dropbox. Did the former.
* Several days later - no change, so send another email whereby I am told symlinks are the cause, despite the fact they've worked for over a year. I move all code (node_modules contain symlinks typically) from my dropbox leaving ~20k files left in there.
* Several days later - Still no change, so I try deleting files on the web interface. It won't let me delete a folder with more than an unstated number of files in it. Support suggest I manually delete 100's of thousands of files.
* Dropbox client starts overwriting files as I work on them.
* Support staff stop responding to emails.
The dropbox client could have at least warned me about the files, if this is an intractable problem. No. Silent failure.
Recently I've been extremely disappointed by dropbox to the point where I've had to reluctantly delete my account and look at alternatives. I was hoping that you guys might be able to point me at a cloud storage solution that copes well with large numbers of files (>300k) on mac at a reasonable price point + preferable allows you to manipulate large numbers of files on the server side (through a web interface or alternative.)
An important note - it's very easy to get to large numbers of files if you ever a. store open source code you're playing with in your cloud solution, b. use git (it generates a lot of files.) - so 300k+ files isn't as outlandish a number as it sounds.
Background for those that are interested -
* I noticed the client was using 100% CPU and never seemed to enter the 'synced' state. A google suggested this was due to too many files, + a reinstall/cache clear could fix. Did this.
* 1 week later - No change. Contact support and received boilerplate copy/paste replies telling me it was too many files + either remove files/use selective sync. The latter crashes dropbox. Did the former.
* Several days later - no change, so send another email whereby I am told symlinks are the cause, despite the fact they've worked for over a year. I move all code (node_modules contain symlinks typically) from my dropbox leaving ~20k files left in there.
* Several days later - Still no change, so I try deleting files on the web interface. It won't let me delete a folder with more than an unstated number of files in it. Support suggest I manually delete 100's of thousands of files.
* Dropbox client starts overwriting files as I work on them.
* Support staff stop responding to emails.
The dropbox client could have at least warned me about the files, if this is an intractable problem. No. Silent failure.