Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Insync

So what is this Insync thing?
Insync is the official unofficial Google Drive client for PC.
Just like the picture said, insync manage your Google Drive files straight from your desktop.

But, Dropbox?
Because Dropbox start to limit the number of devices that can link to a basic users account up to only three devices.
Because Dropbox is limiting the synchronization support to only Ext4 for linux. Meanings that if you have a dualboot OS Windows and Linux, Dropbox no longer can shared the folder under the same NTFS-shared HDD. Upgrading to a premium users don't change this support.

...errr, OneDrive?
OneDrive is nice, but it doesn't have a GUI linux client -yet. There is a workaround over the net, but a dedicated GUI for linux is nice.
On Windows side, OneDrive doesn't have a separated proxy-setting -yet. It follow the global Windows proxy system setting.

Google Drive?
My personal experience with official Google Drive Client -that only available for windows-, the client would freeze every now and then at system shutdown. The client also had a hard time for merging a folder, resulting many duplicate files with index behind the filename. 

filetxt.txt
filetxt(1).txt
filebitmap.bmp
filebitmap(1).bmp
...and so on.

Google Drive also don't have a client for linux system yet. So, i have a love-hate relationship with Google Drive :).

Insync + Google Drive?
Insync adds Google Drive functionality to the Windows, Linux and mac OS desktop. Sync, backup, edit and share files easily with one or multiple accounts.

Insync has its own proxy setting. Its a good thing to have if you deal a lot of local application through LAN but using a proxy to connect into the internet.

- edited-
Insync has added OneDrive support too as from their blog here:
https://www.insynchq.com/blog/insync-3/


tl,dr :
Very happy to use Insync as my main cloud-based storage client for now 😊

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