Good cloud storing/sharing options?

[wdfifteen]

We have Dropbox for my Corp work stuff - anyone in the company can access it and I'm not the administrator, so I don't want my personal photos on it or any file or docs related to my other businesses.
I have Google drive that has 30 gigs of very private personal stuff, family photos etc. It also has notes to myself and files and docs related to my other businesses. I need to access this information both from my office computer and from my laptop at home. While Google says you can sync only specific folders to a computer, as soon as I fire it up it starts syncing all my photos onto my office computer - not good. Telling it to stop makes no difference, it just keeps syncing.
So I need a third cloud storage option. If I had one for the Corp, one for my other businesses, and one for private stuff I could feel more or less confident they would stay separate. I tried iCloud drive. It has some goofy restriction about uploading folders, you have to move one file at a time. That makes it a pain to migrate to.
Are there any other options? I'm looking to store and sync 2 or 3 gigs of mostly Word and Excel files.

[Scott R]

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[red-beard]

Why not setup your own Dropbox?

[Oracle]

^^^ Yep, create a new dropbox.

[stealthn]

ShareFile is excellent.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Why not setup your own Dropbox?

From Dropbox web site:
"Only Dropbox Business users will be able have multiple Dropbox accounts synced to a single device. If you don't have a Dropbox Business account, you can access a second Dropbox account by signing in as another user through the Dropbox website. Or you can share files between multiple accounts by creating shared folders."

I understand the first sentence. I don't know what the he l l the rest of it says. Does it contradict the first sentence?
The Dropbox account I have on the boxes is a business account. Apparently my IT guy can set up a companion personal account, but it is administered by our IT guy. I don't want him having administrative control over my personal files.

[sugarwood]

Portable hard drive is not an option?

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

From Dropbox web site:
"Only Dropbox Business users will be able have multiple Dropbox accounts synced to a single device. If you don't have a Dropbox Business account, you can access a second Dropbox account by signing in as another user through the Dropbox website. Or you can share files between multiple accounts by creating shared folders."

I understand the first sentence. I don't know what the he l l the rest of it says. Does it contradict the first sentence?
The Dropbox account I have on the boxes is a business account. Apparently my IT guy can set up a companion personal account, but it is administered by our IT guy. I don't want him having administrative control over my personal files.

Create a second dropbox account using a different e-mail (personal) address.

I also use OneDrive, which comes with Microsoft Office 365. If you send photos using Live Mail, you already have a OneDrive acccount.

[stomachmonkey]

Tough one.

IMHO the best service, bang for buck and features was copy.com by Barracuda Networks.

Unfortunately it shut down earlier this year.

I also cancelled my dropbox account recently.

After using copy.com I just could not go back to dropbox.

Rolled my own Owncloud server. Not a bad product. Fine for personal stuff, has desktop, iPhone and android clients.

Problem is it's not really "the cloud" if it's not offsite and I don't really want to bother with being "Tech Support" for it.

Have an Amazon Prime Unlimited account which oddly looks like it may be a fork of Owncloud but lacks features like automagic syncing. An Odrive account will solve that if you are OK with their user agreement, I'm not, you basically grant them access to see everything. I guess if you encrypt the sync folder it's ok but still.................not doin it.

Because of my clients I've also had to use box.net and Hightail, formerly Yousendit.

Net net, I still have not found a solution I like after the demise of copy.com

[dad911]

I use 2 synology diskstations, one at work, one at home. They automatically sync files with our computers, the one at home doubles as a clone/backup for the one at the office.

[wdfifteen]

If I create a partition on my computer will each partition have its own IP address? If so I could have multiple google drive accounts.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Portable hard drive is not an option?

Too clean and simple. Also lacking in the excitement that comes with paying someone else to plug in a hard drive for you and rent you the space while also making it potentially available to thieves.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Rolled my own Owncloud server. Not a bad product. Fine for personal stuff, has desktop, iPhone and android clients.

Problem is it's not really "the cloud" if it's not offsite and I don't really want to bother with being "Tech Support" for it.

I use Dropbox for work with my clients, because it is easy for them and we don't have to e-mail large files.

For my own purposes, I have a pair of Iomega/Lenovo NAS appliances and a two-way hardware VPN. Office backs up the essentials to the machine at the house.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Portable hard drive is not an option?

I used to carry a pen and notebook. Using cloud sharing is a lot easier, all I need is a computer or phone. I'm not sure swapping my notebook for a hard drive and my pen for a device I can type on would be a move forward.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Too clean and simple. Also lacking in the excitement that comes with paying someone else to plug in a hard drive for you and rent you the space while also making it potentially available to thieves.

Haha my thoughts exactly...

I personally can't stand the idea of my data living on a device that I don't physically own and control (and I'm not Hillary Clinton either...)

Really important stuff like legal documents and sensitive financial info. live on a drive that's not ever connected to the Internet. I go offline and then work on it, unplug and only then go back online after I'm done using those things.

If it's on a computer connected to the Internet, it's not 100% secure - period. It can be 99% secure but sometimes that's just not good enough. If you simply work offline you're secure - and it doesn't cost anything.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

If I create a partition on my computer will each partition have its own IP address? If so I could have multiple google drive accounts.

I'm not sure that's the question you wanted to ask but the answer to it is no.

[wdfifteen]

^^
Well that sucks. It would solve all my problems if I could partition both my office computer and laptop into work and private partitions that acted as separate computers, with separate drop box accounts.

[stealthn]

Sorry was this just for you or to share with others?

Sharefile from Citrix is excellent for sharing and is very secure and configurable. If just for you, there are tons of internet options for you as others have said.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

^^
Well that sucks. It would solve all my problems if I could partition both my office computer and laptop into work and private partitions that acted as separate computers, with separate drop box accounts.

Yeah, hard drive partitions have nothing to do with whether a PC is seen as one or more.

Even multiple IP addresses won't help, it's not how Dropbox authenticates.

If you are a paying Dropbox Business user you can run a Business and Personal account concurrently.

If not you can roll this hack.

I run something similar in concept for my multiple Skype accounts.

https://ultimatedropboxguide.com/2014/11/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-one-computer/