{"id":327,"date":"2021-05-08T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2021-05-08T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:50:43","slug":"expandrive-vs-dropbox-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/expandrive-vs-dropbox-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"ExpanDrive vs DropBox et al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s DropBox.com, Copy.com, Google&#8217;s Cloud, Apple&#8217;s Cloud&#8230; and gawd knows how many more places there are to store your stuff on there on someone else&#8217;s server.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you happen to have your own server, or FTP access (or a bunch more protocols*) there&#8217;s one more possibility: ExpanDrive, at expandrive.com .<\/p>\n<p>With it, you can mount pretty much anything as a standard drive would mount, on your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>So you can drag-n-drop to it, or you can use CarbonCopyCloner (et al) to backup up files to it.<\/p>\n<p>And, like DropBox-n-More, if you have ExpanDrive on your other computers (like your laptop) &#8211; well: Bingo! the drive appears there too, so you can move files around at will.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the cost of the software, there are no fees associated with it, and the storage you use is entirely up to you.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, ExpanDrive makes doing websites much easier too.<\/p>\n<p>Been using it for years now. The developer is conscientious and the software &#8220;just works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>* ExpanDrive works with:<\/p>\n<p>SFTP<br \/>FTP<br \/>Amazon Se<br \/>WebDAV<br \/>Rackspace Cloud Files<br \/>OpenStack Swift Storage<br \/>Dreamhost DreamObjects<br \/>Box.com<br \/>Dropbox<br \/>Google Drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s DropBox.com, Copy.com, Google&#8217;s Cloud, Apple&#8217;s Cloud&#8230; and gawd knows how many more places there are to store your stuff on there on someone else&#8217;s server. Of course, if you happen to have your own server, or FTP access (or a bunch more protocols*) there&#8217;s one more possibility: ExpanDrive, at expandrive.com . With it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}