The Wolfe Pack

Sorry but the #Dropbox file syncing service/app on PC has become very incompetent over the past few years. It keeps using up over 500 MB of ram on my PC, and says things like "indexing x files" for several minutes when I know it only takes a few seconds to "download" or "upload" said files between devices. What does "index" mean anyway?

Does anyone know of a better file syncing service that works on PC iOS and Linux, doesn't eat up excessive memory, and preferably is local-only so you don't need an account to use? I remember when I started using Dropbox in 2011 the app took only 50 MB of ram, WTF is up with all the ram now?

@sektor Haven't heard of that, but I have a VPS so can share links anytime. I just got a new laptop and am transferring shit over from the old one to the new one. Figured Dropbox was easier than USB flash drives but if it's gonna stall like that maybe not.

@sektor I tried RSync but ran into a problem when trying to set it up. This was months ago.

@kev for just syncing file between your personal computers, you could use syncthing. Set it up on each computer, share keys betwen computers, set up shared directories, and that's it. So long as you have the service running, files will share between devices.

@storm Wow nice!

@sektor Resilio Sync is an app. But I might not need it after all if I can figure something else out.

@sektor @kev It is still non-trivial to run this on Windows AFAIK, either you have to use cygwin or else some paid thing. Unless I missed something. This also assumes you can connect the two PC's directly together enough to expose one's file system on the other, and if you can do that rsync is overkill for just copying things that you know won't be in the destination.