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So this started a few days ago, but I'm asking for some assist from other Febbox users.. Basically, I usually use Febbox to find and download some old movies people share so I can watch them in HD, but for some reason Febbox suddenly stopped letting me download? As in even clicking the movie to watch on-site stopped working, can't click anything, etc. Has anybody else experienced this?

Hello. I’m looking for a Google Drive alternative that offers E2EE and includes full-featured collaboration tools — specifically Docs, Sheets, Forms, and PowerPoint-style presentations.

I’ve been evaluating a few options:

• ProtonDrive — great for privacy, but their ProtonDocs tool feels incomplete (lacks advanced formatting, forms, or PPT functionality).
• Drime — offers E2EE vault, but I’ve had issues with their OnlyOffice, I can't open Docs on my browser and phone
• Koofr — solid service, but I don’t want Microsoft to have access to my documents (which they do via their cloud sync).

I’m hoping for something that can replace Google Workspace entirely — with full document editing, secure collaboration, and E2EE throughout.

Thanks if you can provide any input.

Hello everyone !
that question must have been asked multiple times but I still struggle to find answers to some of these questions so I thought I might as well ask here :
I'm using google drive for storing work backup (I have big project folders ranging from 100go to 250go), and photos mostly, I'd need around 3To storage if possible.
With drive what I like is the app that makes a virtual drive in my explorer in which I can just drop files. I would like a good, cheaper (& also, european if possible) alternative to google drive and I hesitate between 3 services :
pCloud, Proton Drive & kDrive.

What would be your recommendation ?
Thank you in advance for your help !

I've been using Google Photo's for years to auto upload screenshots and text images as well as my normal photos. In my work, I frequently need to search for, say, all the screenshots including phrases with the word 'Nazi' to find a source.

A couple of years ago, despite turning off all age and 'sensitivity' filters, it stopped returning any results for that and any 'DEI' related language like racist, queer, even disabled (I'm a disability activist who writes about eugenics and Aktion T4).

I've contacted them many times and never had an answer other than 'you should be able to see them'. More recently, I suspect they want me to use Gemini but I don't want my photos in that ecosystem. It was happening before Gemini was an option though.

I've seen photo storage places with face searches but it's OCR text search I need across devices. Something secure where the cost isn't my photos and sources being scraped for AI.

Does anything like that exist?

Bonsoir à la communauté.

Moi, je paye pour 100go one drive MS et 200gob Google drive.

J'ai voulu quitter c'est 2 compagnies. Donc, je me suis abonnée à la suite Proton illimité, pour utiliser leur service que j'apprécie grandement.

Mon intention était d’utiliser le drive de Protons pour transférer tout mon data.

Cependant, j'ai été très dessus lorsque je dois faire des recherches sur des dossiers. Mais il est la le problème, je suis incapable d'effectuer mes recherches via Windows, Androïde où Linux mint.

Aucune manière de triage.

Nos transferts automatiques surtout avec Linux.

Donc, à moins qu'il ajoute ces fonctionnalités dans les prochains jours/semaine… je devais trouver un nouveau Cloud.

Donc, m'a question est la suivante. Est-ce que vous pouvez me conseiller un service de cloud, compatible à c'est 3 Platforms. Et dans un monde idéal, qu'il ce synchronise automatiquement comme one Drive?

I have been trying to upload several concert videos taken on my Samsung phone for 2 days now. Each file is roughly 40 GB, and it's been hours and hours and these files are not uploaded. It will upload any current pictures I take but these 2 files have not uploaded, not even overnight. Are there file size limits at one time with this service? I have 600 GB of storage available and over 400 GB is free. I'm using the latest Samsung phone and my wifi is 1GB speed. any suggestions?

I recently looked into the Internxt rclone backend and found an important distinction regarding Internxt's E2E/zero-knowledge claims.

The file contents are encrypted client-side, but the native Internxt rclone backend does not encrypt filenames or folder names before sending them to Internxt.

The Internxt server therefore receives the actual plaintext names and directory structure as part of the API requests.

For example:

Private/
└── Tax/
    └── 2025_Tax_Return.pdf

Internxt receives Private, Tax and 2025_Tax_Return.pdf in plaintext, even though the contents of 2025_Tax_Return.pdf are encrypted.

This means that not all file-related information is end-to-end encrypted. The provider has direct access to filenames, folder names and the directory structure, as well as other metadata such as file sizes and timestamps.

I originally posted this finding in the r/Internxt subreddit, but a moderator deleted the thread. I was not given an explanation for the removal.

I'm therefore posting it here because I think this is an important distinction that users should be aware of and that can be independently verified by looking at the rclone/Internxt implementation.

To be clear: I'm not saying Internxt can decrypt the file contents. I'm saying that the filenames and folder structure themselves are transmitted to the Internxt server in plaintext.

Good Day Cloudstorage Community,

Mods, please remove this post if it does not adhere to your rules.

Due to this community being cloudstorage I thought my application that I have developed would be a perfect fit for this subreddit.

Ultimate File Manager Pro is an all-in-one file manager for Android TV and Mobile, on Google it has over 30k+ downloads and a 4.8 star rating.

The FOSS version has currently 87 stars on GitHub.

If you are interested to see how the application looks like and what features it has, you are welcome to have a look at the official sub reddit r/UFManagerPro or the official website http://www.kilowatch.co.za

If you want access to the GitHub Link: https://github.com/Kilowatch/ultimate-file-manager-pro

If you have any questions or queries, please reach out as I am the developer of this application.

If this post is not suitable for this community then I do apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you and kind regards

After a disastrous experience with a cloud service, I no longer knew which cloud to trust with my data.But one thing became clear to me: buying a ‘lifetime’ cloud storage plan is not a good choice!

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Initially, I considered the major cloud services with a lower risk, such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox, but I found some limitations with each of them, as well as relatively high costs.

Among other minor shortcomings that I won't mention to avoid lengthening the post, all three of the clouds listed lack end-to-end encryption. That is, data is encrypted on the sender's device before being uploaded to the cloud. The decryption keys remain on users' devices, so not even the cloud provider can read the content stored on its servers.

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Having ruled out three of the major cloud services, I once again took a risk for cost reasons by choosing MEGA Cloud, which I had already been using on its free plan for six years. Its Pro I plan offers 3 TB of storage with a total annual transfer limit of 36 TB, at a cost of €99, paid on December 2025. It offers end-to-end encryption. Nevertheless, as a cloud storage service, I have found it to work well during my eight months of subscription, Apart from two problems, one of which was serious, which were resolved later.

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It is not my intention to advertise MEGA, because I don’t like giving advice that could backfire on me, or, at best, give the impression that I am promoting a service for personal gain. Here, I am simply trying to describe my approach in a neutral way.

When fully operational, MEGA works well. It is easy to manage through its app which uses the browser for encryption, and it is fast for both uploads and downloads, although performance obviously depends on each user’s available bandwidth. In my case, I uploaded 1 TB in less than 14 hours. MEGA also uses data deduplication: if it already has the data, perhaps from previous uploads to other folders or collections, it does not upload it again, reducing both transfer time and bandwidth consumption.

So, at least in terms of uploads and downloads, it has been a good choice considering the annual cost.

As part of the plan, it offers unlimited syncs and backups for all your devices, a limited VPN, and S3/S4 data storage. Although this feature, which stores raw data without a hierarchy, is of little use to the average user.

It also allows data to be uploaded from your NAS (Synology in my case), either through the rather rigid proprietary MEGAcmd application or through the more flexible and powerful rclone. However, rclone has to be used with the brakes on, because aggressive uploads or massive deletions — especially of small files (!) — will inevitably result in a temporary ban on its API access. This was the first of the two problems I experienced. Support was unable to lift the ban, even when there were well-justified reasons to request it: the second problem.

For the average user, MEGA offers a good balance of storage capacity, overall performance, local encryption before uploading, ease of use, availability across personal mobile devices and NAS systems, a free basic VPN, and a reasonable annual cost. It is less advantageous in terms of service reliability: the rclone API ban lasted two months, meaning that for two months I could not back up my NAS data except through the very limited MEGA client.

Support was available but ultimately futile, as demonstrated on two occasions. MEGA appears to be problematic in one significant respect, which is the subject of further investigation.

Hi all,

I have bought the 1TB lifetime deal, I want to share it with my wife.
There are 2 options.
1: Give my inlog credentials and let my wife upload to an own IOS folder.
2: Make a shared folder where she can upload.

What is the best option, am i missing something

Anybody knows what's going on with icedrive?? I can't log in the app or website

Hi! I've been using Proton Drive for my documents for a while now so I don't lose them if my hard drive ever breaks down. I don't really trust offline storage like USB flash drives and external hard drives—they tend to suddenly fail out of nowhere.

I was thinking maybe Filen.io would be okay? Or Sync.com? I don't really know how many GBs I need, but I think 5 GB should be enough if I save the documents in PDF format...

I'd just really like it to be zero-knowledge, so that only I can view my documents and nobody else. I don't really care about law enforcement or authorities since I don't have anything illegal in the cloud, but I just want to make sure random people, employees, advertisers, etc. can't easily snoop around in there.

Because my line of thinking is: if I put my files into 2 different clouds and keep them on my PC, that makes 3 locations. That way, nothing bad can happen if something fails somewhere.

VeraCrypt or Cryptomator... well, let's put it this way: that might be a bit too much hassle for me... sure, I've thought about it, maybe I'll do it, maybe not... eventually... but maybe stick to my original plan first, because it's simpler...

Who can you safely trust with your documents, besides Proton?

I’m a music producer and I’m constantly moving audio files, recordings, demos, etc. between my computer and my phone.

At the moment I usually send files to myself through WhatsApp or Gmail, but it feels pretty inefficient when I’m doing it multiple times a day.

I’m looking for some kind of software or app that makes this much easier and works with both iOS and Android.

Ideally, I’d also like something that can transfer files directly without relying on the internet, if that’s possible.

What software do you guys use for this? I’m mainly looking for something simple and reliable rather than a complicated setup.

Update:

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I got quite a few different solutions, and these seem to be the main ones people recommended:

• Syncthing — seems to be one of the most popular options. People mentioned using it for automatic syncing as well as transferring large files locally. Apparently it can be very fast over the same network.

• LocalSend — simple local file transfers between devices. Seems like a good option if you just want to quickly send files without setting up anything complicated. This was probably the most frequently recommended option.

• Blip — another simple file transfer option that people recommended.

• KDE Connect — another popular solution, although my setup is Windows + iPhone, so I need to look into how well it works for that combination.

• PairDrop — also suggested as a simple browser-based option.

• NAS + SMB/CIFS + WireGuard — one person suggested setting up a proper NAS as a central place for all my files, with VPN access when away from home. This is definitely more advanced, but honestly sounds really interesting for music production.

• FTP server — someone mentioned running an FTP server on their phone and accessing it directly over the local network.

A lot of people also suggested just using USB, which would obviously be the simplest solution in theory. The problem is that I’m using Windows + iPhone, and wired file transfers with iOS are surprisingly frustrating. I’d rather not have to deal with iTunes/Finder-style workflows just to move a few audio files back and forth, especially when I’m doing it constantly as a music producer. I’m basically looking for something that feels more like AirDrop, but works properly with Windows + iPhone.

There were also suggestions like Google Drive and Dropbox, but I was hoping for something quicker and more seamless for frequent transfers, rather than having to upload files to the cloud every time.

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to suggest something! I’ve got quite a few things to try now.

I have almost 350gb of photos and videos backed up which i am not willing to delete. I got the 2TB student google ai pro plan for 1 year and now its ending next month. I need to see if there's any method i can keep this cloud storage at no or low cost..

400gb is 14k a year..

Hi all, I'm trying to get a cloud service that provides 1TB (or more) with a lifetime deal instead of a subscription. I did some research and found these 2 sites: Koofr and Filejump.

Koofr offers 1TB infinite storage (via StackSocial) that's $160 USD, and Filejump offers 2TB infinite storage that's $60 USD. However, it's worth noting that Koofr has been around for over 13 years, while FileJump has been around for around 3, so I have more faith in, say, Koofr being around for another 10 years, compared to FileJump.

Still, I can't decide. Are there any other differences between the two I'm missing, or even just another, better, website? Which one should I choose?

I'm wanting to make sure this is a good storage solution as I want full control over it. So, bear with me while I explain.

I currently user Proton Drive and have been for the last 2 years. It's great. But, I have pictures that I want to archive and keep readily available. Pictures that are basically keepsakes. Proton is great at that, however due to the e2ee it makes it painfully slow. Now, over the 2 years of me being a user it has definitely improved. But, I have pictures and videos on there that take forever to load.

I plan on spinning up a Hetzner Storage Share account and use NextCloud. I plan to place it on a subdomain of the domain I own and have it accessed to the outside. From what I have read through some articles is that NextCloud provides a brute force protection and allows you a certain number attempts before it completely bans your IP and also allows you to allowlist an IP as well. My goal is to enable that and only allow at max, 2 attempts before it bans it. I'm also adding in TOTP as added on security.

Security wise, Tailscale would be preferred but I'm trying to make this less painful as possible.

To add, my main website is not a website that is visited. In fact, there is no traffic as it's password protected and mainly serves as informative site in the event that I passed away for my family. No, PII or passwords are located on it. Just mainly what my server rack and stuff does and all that it entails in managing it.

But, has anyone set up something similar? Have you had many people or bots try to brute force it? Does the protection work? TOTP is added on. I will be having Koofr locally backup everything which wouldn't cause too many issues if something happened. Worst case scenario. Ya'know.

I still plan to keep all my documents in proton drive as that is fine. I was looking for a photo the other day and it took forever to load the thumbnails.

So what are your thoughts, has anyone done this? Is it okay with the right measures in place?

We have been pushed into using SharePoint for storing data by some document management platform. We has thought we’d have headroom from the existing 2TB we get with Business Premium licences - boy howdy were we wrong.

My 1TB of data has ingested at nearly 1.5TB - which frankly I don’t totally get but I am assuming it’s a kilobyte != kibibyte thing that I can stress about later. Some of that may be versioning related stuff, etc. but it is what it is.

Anywho, with any further data we’re touching on maxing this out, and current options to scale up appears to be pay per GB and buying a ton of Extra Storage licences up front or PAYG - just making sure there isn’t a better way to handle this? Long term I sense we’ve underestimated the cost in using SharePoint, but need to be sure before I upset managements day!

I’ve been comparing different cloud storage services lately, and I’m starting to realize that there isn’t really a “perfect” option.

Some are cheap but questionable on privacy.
Some have excellent encryption but poor apps or slow speeds.
Others are reliable but become expensive once you need more storage.

If you had to choose only 2:

1. Low price
2. Strong privacy/E2EE
3. Fast upload/download
4. Reliability/long-term availability
5. Good apps across devices

Which two would you pick, and what service are you currently using?

I’m curious what people here actually prioritize rather than just looking at storage size.