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Dropbox Family is now available for everyone, and it's one hell of a bad deal
More expensive than Google's and Microsoft's family offers

Manuel Vonau Manuel Vonau
Dropbox Family is now available for everyone, and it's one hell of a bad deal

Not too long ago, Dropbox introduced a whole slew of new features to its subscribers without raising its prices: there's its own password manager, the extra secure Dropbox Vault, and the option to back up select folders outside Dropbox from your computer. The company also announced a Family plan that would let up to six people share a single 2TB account, and today, this new tier is available to everyone. It costs $16.99 a month, which is just $7 more than a one-user Dropbox Plus subscription.

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Samsung Cloud is terminating Gallery Sync and Drive storage next year
The forecast is not cloudy

Caleb Potts Caleb Potts
Samsung Cloud is terminating Gallery Sync and Drive storage next year

Storing things in the digital cloud is great, but what happens when the sun comes out? This fiction is becoming a reality for many Samsung Cloud users, as the company continues shutting down its cloud storage services to make room for a more monetarily beneficial deal with Microsoft. Samsung is now giving users a timetable for making the switch before everything gets deleted next year.

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Dropbox adds computer backups, a secure vault, and password management
If you trust Dropbox with your files, you might as well hand over your passwords

Caleb Potts Caleb Potts
Dropbox adds computer backups, a secure vault, and password management

Even with memory cards and USB drives, there comes a time when you run out of local storage. Dropbox is one of the most popular ways to keep stuff in the cloud, and today the company has released a new set of features including computer backups, a PIN-protected Vault, and a password manager.

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Android and iPhone backups now free to all with Google One app
Storage management moved to all-in-one interface

Jules Wang Jules Wang
Android and iPhone backups now free to all with Google One app

Google is letting every user back up their phone via Google One, its unified cloud storage scheme for services including Drive, Gmail, and Photos, for free. There will also be an iOS app for the first time while it and the Android one will soon include a storage manager for account holders to clear out old files on said services. These features are the bravest attempt yet to make Google's free users more aware of what One offers and convince them to subscribe.

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How to sync your Dropbox or OneDrive files on a Chromebook
It's far from a perfect solution, but it's something

Manuel Vonau Manuel Vonau
How to sync your Dropbox or OneDrive files on a Chromebook

With Windows programs on the way to Chrome OS and Linux and Android apps already available, it's possible to get a lot of work done on a Chromebook while you're offline. The only problem is that Chrome OS doesn't save a lot of data locally, and even the native Google Drive integration won't retain offline copies of files by default (though that can be changed for individual folders and files). While Chrome OS gained the ability to give you read-only access to third-party cloud storage, there is no official means of fully syncing files from there to your Chromebook. But if you absolutely need offline access to your cloud storage data on your Chromebook, there's an Android app that can help with that: Autosync.

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Dropbox begins rolling out pricey family plan following massive feature update
Twice the cost of Google's family 2TB plan

Jules Wang Jules Wang
Dropbox begins rolling out pricey family plan following massive feature update

This story was originally published and last updated . 

Dropbox has finally fessed up to beta testing a new password manager app. That's just one of several service improvements it announced today that will enhance ease of use and security. But the one that takes the cake today is the ability to sync selected folders from the desktop.

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Dropbox turns off the lights with new dark mode for Android
The box is dark

Jules Wang Jules Wang
Dropbox turns off the lights with new dark mode for Android

Dropbox has been slow to the punch when it comes to putting on its night vision goggles  — it's had good company on that front — but we probably didn't even notice when it put them on. Alas, we've done some work, made a few observations, and have concluded that the cloud storage provider's Android app does include a dark mode.

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The best free and open-source alternatives to Google Drive on Android
Be your own cloud

Corbin Davenport Corbin Davenport
The best free and open-source alternatives to Google Drive on Android

This story was originally published and last updated . 

Cloud file storage is a big business, and frequently involves trusting hoards of your data with corporations so large that even hundreds of gigabytes of your personal data constitute a mathematical rounding error if they were to go missing. There are ways to get around the death grip services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive have on the cloud storage market, though, including some great free and open-source ones we'll round up in this list.

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Google completely ruined shared folders in Drive (Update: Workaround, Google shares longterm plan)
The switch to 'shortcuts' makes everything more complicated than it needs to be

Rita El Khoury Rita El Khoury
Google completely ruined shared folders in Drive (Update: Workaround, Google shares longterm plan)

This story was originally published and last updated . 

Several weeks ago, Google rolled out a change to Drive that lets you create shortcuts to files and folders. The feature had been in testing since August 2019, and its goal is to help you better organize shared files and folders without duplicating them, thus saving you storage and reducing the redundancy and confusion when you move things around. However, this seemingly benign improvement has completely ruined shared folders for anyone who syncs Drive locally to their PC or Mac.

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