I'm wondering what cloud service people are using on their Macs? For storing documents or working with documents online.
iCloud with iCloud drive is the obvious choice because it is baked into the OS. I haven't really been using these cloud services to their full potential, I sometimes use Dropbox to share some files. We have recently started using Google Drive at work to store all of our documents and i'm absolutely loving it.. it's really fast and working with documents in the browser is fast and great for quick edits... changes are then reflected locally, it's great
I decided to try to integrate a similar work flow at home and went with iCloud Drive, I moved my documents over to my drive and like the integration with iWork apps and on iOS.. The service as a whole just doesn't seem as reliable though, the online app areas appear to be slow and bloated and syncing locally is not as reliable as I had hoped... I made some changes online and they haven't been updated locally... There is currently a loading icons next to my iCloud Drive icon but it's not really doing anything.
I've rambled on a bit but my question is: is iCloud as rubbish as it is coming across? If so, what alternatives are you guys using?
From what I can see only Google Drive and OneDrive offer online apps.. Both don't seem to support direct editing of iWork files unless they're converted to .xlsx/.docx/.pptx... is it worth switching to Office apps.
I guess I am just looking for a quick and easy work flow, any suggestions?
Thanks
iCloud with iCloud drive is the obvious choice because it is baked into the OS. I haven't really been using these cloud services to their full potential, I sometimes use Dropbox to share some files. We have recently started using Google Drive at work to store all of our documents and i'm absolutely loving it.. it's really fast and working with documents in the browser is fast and great for quick edits... changes are then reflected locally, it's great
I decided to try to integrate a similar work flow at home and went with iCloud Drive, I moved my documents over to my drive and like the integration with iWork apps and on iOS.. The service as a whole just doesn't seem as reliable though, the online app areas appear to be slow and bloated and syncing locally is not as reliable as I had hoped... I made some changes online and they haven't been updated locally... There is currently a loading icons next to my iCloud Drive icon but it's not really doing anything.
I've rambled on a bit but my question is: is iCloud as rubbish as it is coming across? If so, what alternatives are you guys using?
From what I can see only Google Drive and OneDrive offer online apps.. Both don't seem to support direct editing of iWork files unless they're converted to .xlsx/.docx/.pptx... is it worth switching to Office apps.
I guess I am just looking for a quick and easy work flow, any suggestions?
Thanks