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I'm curious - what did you switch to? (I'm looking)

Don’t laugh: iCloud Drive.

Honestly, it works. Never had a bit of trouble. I might not be a mega power user, but all my stuff is there and I just don’t think about it. I moved away from Dropbox about 2 years ago – because I got sick of the shitty invasive macOS client software – and I regret nothing.

Bonus: invoking Spotlight on an iPad and having your files just show up is kinda magic.

I'm the GP, and I also switched to iCloud Drive. But thanks to a comment above I've moved my _sync folder back to Dropbox and use Maestral as my Mac Dropbox client and it's been working great for the past 18 hours or so.

I switched _sync back because Alfred and other apps warned that using iCloud Drive for sync doesn't work great because it doesn't always update properly, and I've found that to be the case.

Interesting. Will definitely check out Maestral. Thanks.

I like these third party clients for things that are showing up (E.g. Apollo for Reddit).

Got badly burned by iCloud Drive in the early days (and also Apple Photo's losing a ton of my photos). That was a long time ago though. Probably time to revisit it and give it a try.

I do like how iCloud and Onedrive have become so tightly integrated/transparent. (Benefits and banes).

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