Dropbox VS Archivy

Dropbox Reviews

1. Lily1010

   about 4 years ago
   good cloud service

   It's much more convenient than GoogleDrive. I frequently use it to share my projects on freelance platforms. This is reliable cloud storage with many features

   🏁 Competitors: Google Drive

   👍 Pros:    Reliable|Convenient|Easy to use

   👎 Cons:    Found none

Archivy Reviews

Dropbox mentions (28)

• Excel What if Analysis Issue

  Even better: upload an example Excel file to a file-sharing website (box.net/files, dropbox.com, onedrive.live.com, etc), and post a download link that does not require that we log in. Source: 6 months ago

• How to save data on Obsidian? Worried about data loss

  Note that Dropbox automatically backs up all your files. So if you delete a file, you can recover it on dropbox.com, even 6 months later. Source: 11 months ago

• How long would a USB stick last in storage?

  Upload what is on that stick to a cloud based system that is not vulnerable to degradation of hardware, you can get a lot of storage for free on sites like dropbox.com, mega.nz, or icloud. You can also always make multiple backups. Source: 11 months ago

• Dropbox data gone

  Did you try logging into dropbox.com and checking there? Often the files remain online even if they are removed locallY. You have to log in with the same account you deleted Locally. Source: 11 months ago

• Author Resources: Tools and Software

  Dropbox: You absolutely NEED backups. Ideally, both physical and cloud backups, because if you only have one backup, you're not backed up. I can't even begin to tell you how many writers have lost days, weeks, or even entire novels worth of work because they failed to back up their work, then had their computer break or had some weird software snafu. Dropbox is my preferred cloud backup solution, because you can... Source: 11 months ago

Archivy mentions (10)

• Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation

  Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to securely save meaningful content that contributes to your personal, searchable, and expandable wiki. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

  What do you use the spaced repetition for? [0]: https://archivy.github.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I centralize and distribute my bookmarks

  This is nice! I ended up doing something similar with my project garret [0] to publicly share my bookmarks online. Now I also just archive / export my bookmarks into Archivy [1]. [0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/garret [1]: https://archivy.github.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Anyone using BookStack for anything personal? I see it recommended all the time, but I don't know what to do with it!

  #1: Mealie - A Self Hosted Recipe Manager Alpha Release | 179 comments #2: Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your own personal, searchable and extensible wiki. | 73 comments #3: The Perfect Media Server - 2020 Edition | 96 comments. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive

  I was looking into this a while ago, there are a couple of solutions (all of them not perfect unfortunately IMO). https://archivy.github.io/ https://perkeep.org/ https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori Are three of them. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago