Submitted by jimspoon on 2019/09/18 17:49
I wonder if there are any sync services and clients that prioritize - i.e. sync some folders and files before any others.  That would be VERY useful for us IQ users.  I sync many, many files, with very frequent updates and deletions.  Because of this there's often a big queue of files to be synced, and it takes quite awhile sometimes.  This is compounded by me syncing my files to a number of different computers - four in regular use right now.  I checked both OneDrive and Dropbox and I didn't see any support for prioritizing some files and folders over others.
 
On a related topic - because the free Dropbox account supports only 3 synced computers/devices, I recently switched to OneDrive.  So far so good, even though OneDrive uses only "whole file sync" and not "changes to file only" sync. 
 
 
 
 

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Hi Jim,
 
Keeping fingers crossed, but I still have 7 devices connected to Dropbox free plan
 
Have a look at pCloud, it is one of the few that support block-level sync (great for IQ files which can be large, but with small changes)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

jimspoon

2019/09/19 03:04

In reply to by Pierre_Admin

[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Keeping fingers crossed, but I still have 7 devices connected to Dropbox free plan
 
Have a look at pCloud, it is one of the few that support block-level sync (great for IQ files which can be large, but with small changes)  
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Wow!  I get prompted to disconnect a 4th device all the time - but I guess that may happen only when I try to connect a new device, and maybe it won't force a disconnect any connected devices until you try to do that.  It's not that big a deal if you do have to disconnect a device - because you can easily disconnect one device and reconnect another, and changes will sync to that reconnected device.  At least I think so.
 
I have pCloud, but really haven't used it that much yet.  Didn't know it was block-level, that's great.  I signed up when I saw a "too good to be true" deal, of 500GB for life for something like $60.  The "Crypto" option would be an additional charge, but I guess I can do encryption on my own.  I really need to try using it for awhile.

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/19 16:41

In reply to by jimspoon

Humm... I wonder why they forgot about me...
it may be because for some reason, a few years ago, I got "upgraded" to Dropbox Teams (with only 1 member)
 
YMMV, but one way around the 3 devices limit is to use 2 separate accounts and share folders between the two accounts
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer