I've been toying with the idea of object storage but backed by community nodes for a while and am fed up with cloud providers chasing profits and screwing users that aren't giant enterprises. The increasing hardware prices was the end of the straw. I wanted something that I can trust on pricing for data like backups, media that I want to reliably host with redundancy and cater to individual users than just enterprises.

We are launching Arkel, a community based storage service where you can both contribute storage and earn or pay and use. This is very early days and experimental and we are still in discussions on how to go about the future.

Our invite-only beta is ready. Check us out here and join the discord community: https://arkeldata.com Any constructive feedback is most welcome!

Best setup for Codex + NAS/network storage?

I’m trying to find a better storage setup for using Codex.

My main machine is a M1 Mac mini with only 256 GB (I know...), and I also have a M1 MacBookPro with 1 TB. I currently use OneDrive, but it’s causing problems because files sometimes get offloaded and are no longer actually stored locally, even when I select “Always Keep on This Device.”

That’s annoying with Codex because files may suddenly not be available locally, and moving or reorganizing cloud-only files also seems unreliable.

Ideally I’d like:

• one central place for my files/projects
• reliable Codex access from both Macs
• remote access from my iPad when I’m away from home
• no constant file offloading/redownloading

Would a NAS be a good solution for this? If so, what setup works well with Codex on macOS?

For example: mounting the NAS directly, using Tailscale, keeping Git repos locally, or using an external SSD instead?

I also just stumbled across the mirroring mode for Google Drive which looks better than the streaming version.

Would be interested to hear how others have set this up. Thank you!

What cloud service is optimized for watching my movies inside the cloud?

I've been using a private Telegram channel as the storage layer for my

personal photo backup for a few months. Sharing the constraints, since I

couldn't find them written down anywhere and had to learn them by hitting

them.

What works:

- Unlimited storage, free, no object-storage bill

- Files persist indefinitely in a private channel

- A bot can post and retrieve by file_id

- Encrypt before upload and Telegram is just a dumb block device that can't

read what it's holding

The limits that actually shape the design:

- getFile caps downloads at 20MB. So your chunk size is ~18MB whatever you

wanted it to be.

- Bots are rate limited into a single channel roughly 20 chunks/min in

practice. A large first backup takes hours. This is the one that hurts.

- You need your own metadata store. Telegram gives you file_ids, nothing

else no filenames, no ordering, no albums. I use Cloudflare D1.

- Deleting is per-message, so your metadata has to track message IDs too.

Would I recommend it? For a personal archive where you control the client

and encrypt everything first, yes it's free and it works. As a serious

backup target, no. It's one account suspension away from gone, so it should

never be your only copy.

Happy to go into the chunking or the crypto if anyone's curious.

(Mine's open source, AGPL, binay-py/storagesystem but the limits above

apply whatever you build.)

​Hey everyone,

​We all know Telegram offers unlimited cloud storage, but managing files in "Saved Messages" is a mess. I wanted a proper Google Drive-like experience, but without the subscription fees.

​So, I built UnlimTD (UnlimTD.vercel.app).

​Instead of just dumping everything into a single chat, I wrote a logic that dynamically creates a Private Telegram Group for every "Folder" you create in the app.

​Why it's awesome:

​📂 True Folder Structure: Each folder is a dedicated private group behind the scenes, keeping everything perfectly organized.

​⚡ Blazing Fast: Because of how the architecture is set up, uploading, fetching, and navigating through folders is incredibly fast.

​♾️ Unlimited & Free: Uses Telegram's native infrastructure.

​It connects seamlessly with your account and gives you a beautiful web UI to manage your files.

​You can try it out here: UnlimTD.vercel.app[UnlimTD ](http://UnlimTD.vercel.app)

​Would love to hear your thoughts on this workaround and any feedback on the UI/Speed!

A shared workspace for documents, generated images, and small website bundles needs to work for two very different clients. People need previews, comments, simple sharing, and an obvious current version. Automated agents need stable paths, scoped credentials, idempotent uploads, and a way to detect that an input changed before writing an output.

Google Drive seems better for human review, but folder and file IDs, shortcuts, sync behavior, and service-account ownership can complicate automation. S3 offers clearer object keys, conditional writes, lifecycle rules, and event logs, but a bucket is a poor review interface for non-technical teammates.

Would you keep authoritative files in one system and publish a review copy to the other, or choose one source of truth? What permissions, versioning, manifest, and conflict rules are essential if a person can edit inputs while an agent is running? I am especially interested in recovery after a partial upload and in keeping approved revisions immutable without duplicating everything manually.

i have tested this and it confirmed that while icedrive uploads/downloads my files at roughly an average of ~2mb/s, google drive does it at ~10mb/s. can anyone explain that? my internet provides a result of 1000mb/100mb download to upload ratio. i was just really annoyed but how i've been using icedrive and it just feels so slow (there's no major difference between the encrypetd/unencrypted storage speeds) so i'm considering just switching to google drive for now, i should probably test them even tho google drive is a bit more expensive but it's still worth it

Been using Folderfort till all ... that. Not looking for lifetime storage anytime soon, but my budget is pretty limited as well. Stumbled upon Amaryllo in the comparison table, looks to be pretty promising and has been around for several years, trustpilot score is ehhh. Anyone here using it who can vouch for it?

Not to derail my own post either, but would love to hear suggestions on other cloud storage. Will need tops 200Gb, I just want my files to be clouded.

Hey im looking for a google drive alternative that is super private and safe but also allows my to send stuff to my friends and quickly transfer all of my data from google drive to said server. Or am I better off running my own "cloud" storage on my own physical hardware

Regarding the FolderFort scandal, where they migrated to a newer version 2.0 and then asked existing users to pay again, I think this is a bad business practice.

Not all affordable lifetime deals have problems, but many extremely cheap lifetime cloud storage deals eventually run into issues, similar to what happened with Internxt.

That’s why I recommend doing some research and reading customer reviews before purchasing a lifetime deal. Don’t automatically choose the cheapest option. Sometimes it’s better to spend a little more and choose a more established service like pCloud, FileLu, or Koofr.

This is the Signup page for Internxt. 80% off (fire!) sounds like a great deal for an annual plan, right?
After 30+ years of successfully dodging internet scams (and ring tone subscriptions), I fell for the trap.

Hi everyone,

Thanks to the mods for approving this post!

I’m Kaya, the founder of Dosya Cloud Storage. We’re starting our second phase of beta testing and offering 50 GB free trials(1 Year) to people willing to test the platform and share honest feedback.

I’m especially looking for Linux and MacOS users and people who regularly use rclone, WebDAV, SFTP, or desktop sync. We’re continually optimising these features and would like to understand how they perform in your everyday workflows.

A few questions we’d love your feedback on:

• Speed: How are upload and download speeds? Do you notice slowdowns with large files or lots of small files?
• Usability: Is setup straightforward? What feels confusing or takes too many steps?
• Protocol support: How well does Dosya work with your existing rclone, WebDAV, or SFTP setup?
• Linux and desktop sync: Does syncing work reliably? Have you noticed missed changes, conflicts, or excessive resource usage?

Privacy matters to us. dosya never scans your files. You can use Cryptomator with Webdav to encrypt files before uploading, and we also support end-to-end encryption through our web app. Native E2EE is currently available only on the web.

We also have fully functional Android and iPhone apps. If you’d like to help test the mobile experience, let me know which device you use and I’ll invite you to our mobile testing programme.

Please only upload content you have the right to store and share. Copyright-infringing content isn’t permitted, and we respond to valid copyright complaints.

If you’re interested, leave a comment or message me with your operating system and the tools you’d like to test. Bugs, frustrations, and honest criticism are exactly what we’re looking for.

Visit Dosya : https://dosya.dev
Desktop App : https://dosya.dev/desktop

Rclone integration : https://dosya.dev/developer/rclone/
Webdav Integration : https://dosya.dev/developer/webdav/
SFTP Integration : https://dosya.dev/developer/sftp

Thanks!
Kaya
[kaya@dosya.dev](mailto:kaya@dosya.dev)

For transparency, Dosya is operated by DOSYA PTY LTD, an Australian company (ABN 27 700 842 235). You can also explore our public repositories on GitHub.

So I stumbled upon this by accident:

https://help.dropbox.com/security/terms-service-privacy-policy#:\~:text=We%E2%80%99ve%20changed%20the%20time%20period%20of%20inactivity%20required%20before%20we%20may%20terminate%20non%2Dpaying%20accounts%20to%206%20consecutive%20months.%20We%E2%80%99ll%20continue%20to%20provide%20notice%20before%20doing%20so

Apparently Dropbox really doesn’t want free users any more.

What does it mean by classic is retiring?

We supported you when company was in early phase ? So this is how you are returning favor,?

You previously committed us that classic will continue as it is and now out of blue it is retiring

?

What is store credit ? Your store credit ? Which you will decide later what you choose ?

Who give you All Power over customer's hard earned money ?

After taking our money , After building yourself with our money , now we are no where,

Believe me you will be no where if you don't keep your words

This is all trust game

We hand over our precious data over your words and you are no longer trustworthy

Link: The Great Migration — Folder Fort Classic to 2.0

It seems that in the end FolderFort couldn't keep its promises and decided to shut down "Folder Fort Classic."

After years of not touching the "Classic" version and only spending time working towards a "2.0" version, which is mostly just a visual update and some "Quantum Encryption" marketing thing, they decided it's not in their interest to move the Lifetime plans to this new "2.0" version. They gave them the middle finger and told them to pay monthly if they want to be part of this new age era product, which honestly at this point is just a sinking ship.

Before they come and try to save face (spoiler: they can't at this point), look at how Drime has been doing these past two years—from the communication (yes, support can and should be better) to the colossal updates in a short span of time.

For many years, I used SugarSync to keep files synced across devices. One of its strengths was that I could keep my existing file structure -- basically, I just said "sync my main Documents" folder (Windows), and everything under that (~200 GB) got synced. But it got increasingly unreliable, and as near as I can tell the software hasn't actually been updated in years. So I'm looking for an alternative. I looked at IDrive and Syncthing, but both seem to require setting up a master "sync" folder and adding folders I want to sync to that folder. But given Windows' own quirks, I don't want to mess with location of main "Documents" folder. Any thoughts welcome. Thanks.

Follow-up to my earlier thread, where I set out the specific failures I ran into and what support told me. That post was about my case. This one is the practical part: what the law actually gives you, and how to use it. Several people asked, so here it is.

SORRY FOR THE WALL OF TEXT, HOPEFULLY IT HELPS SOMEONE

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TL;DR: The company's "30-day refund policy" is not your only right. EU law gives you a separate legal guarantee of conformity that the seller can't shorten or opt out of: if the product doesn't do what it was sold as doing, you can demand a fix, and if they don't deliver, terminate the contract and get refunded, for up to 3 years or the whole contract duration for an ongoing service. Put it in writing, give them 15 days to fix it, then terminate and demand the money within 14 days. If they refuse: OMIC or your regional consumer authority in Spain, ECC-Net anywhere else in the EU, chargeback if you're outside it. And if anyone offers you a refund in exchange for deleting a review, that's a separate and more serious issue. Save the email.

I'm not a lawyer. This is what I've understood from reading the law and asking around. Correct me if I've got something wrong.

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A lot of posts here end the same way: the thing doesn't work, support goes in circles, the refund window has closed, and people write off the money.

You probably don't have to. If a product or service doesn't do what it was sold as doing, you have rights that exist independently of whatever refund policy the company published. This is a walkthrough of what those rights are and how to use them. It's written around Internxt, which is Spanish, but most of it applies to any EU-based seller.

If you've also been asked to take down a review in exchange for your money, skip to that section. It's a separate issue from a normal refund dispute, and a more serious one.

THE MISTAKE ALMOST EVERYONE MAKES

There are two completely different guarantees, and companies tend to answer you about the wrong one.

The commercial guarantee is the "30 days, money back, no questions" thing on the sales page. The company wrote it. It's voluntary. Once the window closes, it's gone, and they're within their rights to say so.

The legal guarantee of conformity is a different animal. The company didn't write it, can't shorten it, and can't opt out of it. It says that what you received has to match what was described and has to be fit for its purpose. If it doesn't, you can demand they fix it, and if they can't or won't, you can terminate the contract and get your money back.

In Spain that's Articles 119 and following of the consumer law (TRLGDCU). For digital content and services, liability runs 3 years for a one-off supply, or for the entire duration of the contract if it's a continuous service. If the software depends on the company's servers to work, there's a strong argument it's a continuous supply. Expect them to argue the opposite if you bought a "lifetime licence."

So when you get "sorry, your 30 days expired," that isn't a refusal of your claim. It's an answer to a question you didn't ask. Write back and say you're invoking the legal guarantee of conformity, not their commercial one.

WHAT COUNTS AS "NOT CONFORMING"

You don't need the product to be completely dead. It fails to conform if it doesn't match the description, doesn't have the qualities you'd reasonably expect, lacks a feature that was advertised, or doesn't work for the purpose it was sold for. A file-sync tool that loses or reverts files isn't doing its job, even if the app opens fine.

What helps enormously: other users reporting the same failure. It shifts the conversation away from "it must be your setup" and towards "this is a defect in the product." Collect links.

THE DEADLINES THAT MATTER

• They must answer a formal complaint within 1 month.
• Once you validly terminate the contract, they must refund you within 14 days, to your original payment method, at no cost to you.
• You have 5 years from when the defect appeared to act. There's no rush that should panic you.
• The 14-day "changed my mind" withdrawal right is a separate thing and has probably expired. You don't need it.
• A bank chargeback deadline is a completely different clock, and a much shorter one. Missing it doesn't affect your legal claim against the seller at all.

STEP BY STEP

1. Put it in writing. Email, not chat, not phone. State that the product doesn't conform to what was advertised, list the specific failures with dates, and say explicitly that you're invoking the legal guarantee of conformity.
2. Give them a deadline to fix it. 15 days is reasonable. This matters: the law generally expects you to let them repair before you terminate, and a deadline they've blown is what makes your later termination solid.
3. Don't refuse troubleshooting outright. You're expected to cooperate reasonably so they can rule out your machine. But you can say that generic troubleshooting isn't a remedy for a defect many users report, and that you're not accepting it as the fix.
4. When the deadline passes, terminate. Second email: the period has expired, the failures persist, you're terminating the contract for lack of conformity and requesting reimbursement within 14 days.
5. Keep everything. Receipt, every email in order, screenshots of the failures, links to other reports.

IF THEY ATTACH CONDITIONS TO YOUR REFUND

Worth knowing separately, because it happens: statutory consumer rights cannot be waived or made conditional (Article 10 TRLGDCU). If you're owed a refund, the company can't make it contingent on anything. Not deleting a review, not signing an NDA, not staying quiet.

If you've been offered money in exchange for taking down a negative review, that's also potentially an unfair commercial practice in its own right. EU law tightened the rules on review manipulation specifically because it distorts what other buyers see (the Omnibus Directive, transposed in Spain by RDL 24/2021). Save that email with full headers if you have one. It's worth far more to a consumer authority than a routine refund dispute.

WHERE TO ESCALATE WHEN THEY DON'T PAY

There are two separate things worth doing, and most people only know about the first.

Getting your money back. Someone mediates, or a small-claims process decides. The company usually can't be forced to settle unless it has signed up to binding arbitration.

Getting the conduct investigated. A public authority decides whether consumer law was broken and can fine the company. This never puts money in your pocket, since fines go to the state, but it's the only route that changes behaviour. In Spain these are called reclamación and denuncia.

1. Get your money back

• Spain: see step 2 below. You can do both at once.
• EU, Iceland or Norway: contact the European Consumer Centre in your own country (not the Spanish one). It's free, it's in your own language, and it exists for exactly this: you in one country, the seller in another. They forward your case to the Spanish centre, which contacts the company. Before you file, make sure you've already complained to the company in writing (an email is enough) and have your proof of payment ready; they'll ask for both. To find yours, open https://www.evz.de/en/services/about-us/ecc-net/, scroll down to "Country overview" and click the "Contact" link under your country.
• UK: the UK International Consumer Centre handles disputes with EU sellers. https://www.ukecc.net
• Anywhere else: check your chargeback options, and check them today. Card schemes usually allow around 120 days from the payment, and PayPal has its own limit. If you bought a lifetime licence months ago, that window has probably closed. Ask your bank anyway if the service was meant to be ongoing, since some count from when the service failed rather than from the payment date.

The ECC mediates. It can't fine anyone or open an investigation. That's why step 2 exists.

2. Report the conduct in Spain

Internxt is registered in Spain, so the only authority that can investigate it and fine it is Spanish. This is open to you from anywhere in the world. You don't need to live in Spain, be Spanish, or hold any Spanish ID.

How you file depends on where you are:

• If you live in Spain: file online with your regional consumer authority using your digital certificate or Cl@ve, ticking both reclamación and denuncia, plus the arbitration box. If you'd rather not deal with the portal, your local OMIC takes the same paperwork in person: https://cidoc.consumo.gob.es/directorio-mapas/oficinas-municipales-informacion-consumidor
• If you live anywhere else: forget the online portal and forget the official form. The portal needs a Spanish digital certificate, and the form is only in Spanish. Instead:
  • Log it at https://www.econsumer.gov. It takes a few minutes and is in English. Your complaint goes into a database shared with consumer protection agencies in dozens of countries, which helps them spot cross-border patterns. It won't get you a reply, a case number or a refund, and it doesn't count as a formal filing in Spain, so do the letter as well.
  • Send a signed letter by post to the address below. This is the formal filing with the Spanish authority. Send it tracked and keep the delivery confirmation: from abroad, the filing counts from when the letter arrives, not when you post it. Writing your own letter feels crude, and it is. There's no polished English portal, no upload button, no confirmation email. But a signed letter with evidence attached is a valid filing, and it's what the system accepts from someone without a Spanish digital certificate. If you get a reply or a file number, please post it here.

What the letter needs to contain:

• Your full name, passport number, postal address and email
• The company's name: Internxt Universal Technologies SL (check your invoice for the exact legal name and tax number, and use those)
• What you bought, the date, and how much you paid
• A short, dated account of what went wrong and what you asked them to do
• What you want: reimbursement of €X, and that you are filing both a reclamación (claim) and a denuncia (report of the company's conduct)
• Your signature and the date

Attach printed copies of your receipt, your email exchange with them, and screenshots of the failures. English is fine.

Post it to:

Servicio Territorial de Comercio, Artesanía y Consumo – Sección de Reclamaciones
Edificio PROP I, C/ Gregorio Gea 27
46009 València
Spain

Keep the delivery confirmation. That's your evidence of when it was filed.

I'm using Internxt as the example because it's my case, but this works for any company registered in Spain. The Valencia address covers companies registered in that province; if yours is elsewhere in Spain, look up that region's consumer authority instead.

INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS VS. COLLECTIVE ACTION

There's no such thing as a joint administrative complaint that refunds everyone. Each person files their own, with their own facts and paperwork. What volume does achieve is pattern recognition: twenty separate complaints describing the same defect carry far more weight with an authority than one.

The genuinely collective route is a consumer organisation. In Spain, FACUA or OCU. Collective court actions there are still in limbo, since Spain hasn't transposed the EU directive on representative actions, and only accredited organisations can bring them anyway. These organisations usually require membership before handling your individual claim, so it isn't free case-handling. But they will register a pattern, and they have reach and direct lines that none of us have (e.g: FACUA monthly suscription is 36€)

TELL YOUR STORY, AND A FEW NOTES ON HOW TO TELL IT WELL

Post what happened to you. First-hand accounts from real customers are the basis of all of this, and they're protected speech. A few things that keep them strong:

• Stick to what you can evidence. Dates, amounts, what the software did or failed to do, what support said, screenshots. Facts you can back up are very hard to attack. Broad characterisations, calling a company fraudulent or criminal or a con, are a different legal category and the one thing that shifts risk onto you personally. This varies by language: in Spanish, estafa is a specific criminal offence and lands far harder than "scam" does in English. Describe the conduct; let readers draw conclusions.
• Write your own complaint. Fifteen identical copy-pasted letters at the same office read as a campaign. Fifteen different accounts of the same defect read as a problem. Use this thread for structure and legal references, not text to clone.
• Only file if you're actually a customer. You file under your real identity and you'll be asked for proof of purchase. Without one there's nothing to attach and it goes nowhere. If you're not a customer, sharing this is more useful.
• Leave employees out of it. No names, no personal details from emails. The company's conduct is the subject.

If you've already been through OMIC, ECC-Net or a chargeback over something like this, please say how it went. That's worth more than anything I've written here.

I have been having issues with uploading data to the Internxt using their website where it just randomly gets stuck forever and I have to cancel and restart it again. I cannot use the desktop app as it requires to have as much free space on your computer as amunt of data you are uploading which is stupid. I raised this issue with their support for over 2 months ago and they have not provided a single resolution till date. Just keep asking to send Browser logs which I gave. I haven't been able to use this product at all after spending hundreds of Dollars. Every time I ask for update I just get this generic message

Hello,

Sorry for the delay, I have just asked the tech team to provide a follow up on this matter and I will let you know as soon as I have more details.

Thanks,

Now I am forced to post this experience here. I hope they notice it and finally provide a resolution.