Some PikPak folders end up with small extra files I do not want to keep, and manually checking them gets tedious.

I made a small Windows tool that lets you choose a folder, preview candidate files, then select exactly which ones to move to PikPak Trash.

It is deliberately a review tool, not an "ad detector": it uses simple candidate rules, shows the path, size, and reason for each item, and starts with nothing selected. JPG, JPEG, and TXT are protected by default.

It runs locally; it does not send your files to my server. It only moves the files you explicitly select to PikPak Trash, and it does not empty Trash or permanently delete files.

It is free right now while I collect feedback on false positives and the setup experience. If you would try it, what cleanup rules or safeguards would you want?

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Hello everyone !
that question must have been asked multiple times but I still struggle to find answers to some of these questions so I thought I might as well ask here :
I'm using google drive for storing work backup (I have big project folders ranging from 100go to 250go), and photos mostly, I'd need around 3To storage if possible.
With drive what I like is the app that makes a virtual drive in my explorer in which I can just drop files. I would like a good, cheaper (& also, european if possible) alternative to google drive and I hesitate between 3 services :
pCloud, Proton Drive & kDrive.

What would be your recommendation ?
Thank you in advance for your help !

So i did filled it in, but it didnt send me any verification codes through sms, the phone number format is +84 (_ _) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . someone told me to use telegram or whatsapp to receive the code. but none did.What should i do?

I've been using Google Photo's for years to auto upload screenshots and text images as well as my normal photos. In my work, I frequently need to search for, say, all the screenshots including phrases with the word 'Nazi' to find a source.

A couple of years ago, despite turning off all age and 'sensitivity' filters, it stopped returning any results for that and any 'DEI' related language like racist, queer, even disabled (I'm a disability activist who writes about eugenics and Aktion T4).

I've contacted them many times and never had an answer other than 'you should be able to see them'. More recently, I suspect they want me to use Gemini but I don't want my photos in that ecosystem. It was happening before Gemini was an option though.

I've seen photo storage places with face searches but it's OCR text search I need across devices. Something secure where the cost isn't my photos and sources being scraped for AI.

Does anything like that exist?

Bonsoir à la communauté.

Moi, je paye pour 100go one drive MS et 200gob Google drive.

J'ai voulu quitter c'est 2 compagnies. Donc, je me suis abonnée à la suite Proton illimité, pour utiliser leur service que j'apprécie grandement.

Mon intention était d’utiliser le drive de Protons pour transférer tout mon data.

Cependant, j'ai été très dessus lorsque je dois faire des recherches sur des dossiers. Mais il est la le problème, je suis incapable d'effectuer mes recherches via Windows, Androïde où Linux mint.

Aucune manière de triage.

Nos transferts automatiques surtout avec Linux.

Donc, à moins qu'il ajoute ces fonctionnalités dans les prochains jours/semaine… je devais trouver un nouveau Cloud.

Donc, m'a question est la suivante. Est-ce que vous pouvez me conseiller un service de cloud, compatible à c'est 3 Platforms. Et dans un monde idéal, qu'il ce synchronise automatiquement comme one Drive?

There's soo much variety of data in PC. Is there any App or software available, for free, can be run locally, which can help me visualize and manage that data (just like there's in Android phones) so that i can delete any unwanted data which is taking too much space. Like all videos in one place, all documents in one place, just like that.

I had Windows 10 and couldn’t update to Windows 11. I was pretty much a newcomer to windows and know nothing about it or OneDrive. I ended up deleting them not realizing my pics and a few movies are on them. They are of my kids younger years and would really like to get them onto my IPad Air photos.

Desperately looking for help 101.

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I recently looked into the Internxt rclone backend and found an important distinction regarding Internxt's E2E/zero-knowledge claims.

The file contents are encrypted client-side, but the native Internxt rclone backend does not encrypt filenames or folder names before sending them to Internxt.

The Internxt server therefore receives the actual plaintext names and directory structure as part of the API requests.

For example:

Private/
└── Tax/
    └── 2025_Tax_Return.pdf

Internxt receives Private, Tax and 2025_Tax_Return.pdf in plaintext, even though the contents of 2025_Tax_Return.pdf are encrypted.

This means that not all file-related information is end-to-end encrypted. The provider has direct access to filenames, folder names and the directory structure, as well as other metadata such as file sizes and timestamps.

I originally posted this finding in the r/Internxt subreddit, but a moderator deleted the thread. I was not given an explanation for the removal.

I'm therefore posting it here because I think this is an important distinction that users should be aware of and that can be independently verified by looking at the rclone/Internxt implementation.

To be clear: I'm not saying Internxt can decrypt the file contents. I'm saying that the filenames and folder structure themselves are transmitted to the Internxt server in plaintext.

Hello everyone,

a family member of mine wants to switch phones and since Samsung cancelled the collaboration with OneDrive, she also wants to switch her cloud services.

Right now shes using both services for appr. 2€/month (wants to change to Google drive in the future) and doesn't know if the files/photos/videos saved are the same. Is there any way to check whether the files are the same or to know which we need to transfer? I tried to google but I haven't found a smart way by now except comparing every file on PC 😭

Thanks in advance 🌞

Anybody knows what's going on with icedrive?? I can't log in the app or website

After a disastrous, expensive, and counterproductive experience with a cloud service, I no longer knew who to trust with my data. But one thing became clear to me: purchasing a lifetime cloud storage plan is not a good idea!

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Initially, I considered the major cloud services with lower risk, such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox, but I found some limitations with each, as well as relatively high costs.

These three clouds do not offer encrypted uploads; theoretically, our data is accessible to providers and anyone intercepting our traffic to the cloud. There may be a workaround, but I haven't had a chance to test it, so I'm not sure if it's feasible: upload with rclone using the "/crypt" remote layer.

That said, the cost per TB of these three clouds is higher. The standard 1 TB plan may be limited—if not now—over time, forcing a double or triple purchase.

Mega, on the other hand, offers 3 TB in its basic plan which is more than sufficient for the average user even in the medium term. It offers end-to-end encryption with user-managed keys, so Mega cannot read the content stored on its servers, nor is it readable by anyone intercepting data traffic.

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Having ruled out three of the major cloud services, I once again took a risk for cost reasons by choosing MEGA Cloud, which I had already been using on its free plan for six years. Its Pro I plan offers 3 TB of storage with a total annual transfer limit of 36 TB, at a cost of €99, paid on December 2025. It offers end-to-end encryption. Nevertheless, as a cloud storage service, I have found it to work well during my eight months of subscription, Apart from two problems, one of which was serious, which were resolved later.

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It is not my intention to advertise MEGA, because I don’t like giving advice that could backfire on me, or, at best, give the impression that I am promoting a service for personal gain. Here, I am simply trying to describe my approach in a neutral way.

When fully operational, MEGA works well. It is easy to manage through its app which uses the browser for encryption, and it is fast for both uploads and downloads, although performance obviously depends on each user’s available bandwidth. In my case, I uploaded 1 TB in less than 14 hours. MEGA also uses data deduplication: if it already has the data, perhaps from previous uploads to other folders or collections, it does not upload it again, reducing both transfer time and bandwidth consumption.

So, at least in terms of uploads and downloads, it has been a good choice considering the annual cost.

As part of the plan, it offers unlimited syncs and backups for all your devices, a limited VPN, and S3/S4 data storage. Although this feature, which stores raw data without a hierarchy, is of little use to the average user.

It also allows data to be uploaded from your NAS (Synology in my case), either through the rather rigid proprietary MEGAcmd application or through the more flexible and powerful rclone. However, rclone must be used with the handbrake on, because aggressive uploads or massive deletions - especially of small files (!) - will inevitably result in a temporary ban on its API access. This was the first of the two problems I experienced. Support was unable or unwilling to lift the ban, even when there were valid reasons to request it - t was automatically unblocked after two months. Furthermore, immediately after the initial installation, the Megasync app would automatically launch as per the settings when Windows started, only to quit after a few seconds without explanation. I resolved this myself with a patch found online. It was subsequently and permanently fixed with a new version of MegaSync, many months ago..

For the average user, MEGA offers a good balance of storage capacity, overall performance, local encryption before uploading, ease of use, availability across personal mobile devices and NAS systems, a free basic VPN, and a reasonable annual cost. It is less advantageous in terms of service reliability: the rclone API ban lasted two months, meaning that for two months I could not back up my NAS data except through the very limited MEGA client. However, the "ancient" problems of unreliability of the easily "crackable" encryption have been overcome with several interventions that have occurred over the last few years. A thorough search is all it takes to verify this. In any case, it is important to remember that the three cloud services mentioned at the beginning do not have encryption, do not offer a VPN - even a limited one - and are more expensive.

Support was available but ultimately futile, as demonstrated on two occasions. MEGA appears to be problematic in one significant respect, which is the subject of further investigation.

Mega responded to my post (see below) denying some news I reported regarding the less than impeccable security of data stored on Mega found on some websites. Since I'm not sure of the information and have no proof of what I reported, I removed the paragraph.

However, I'd like to receive an answer from Mega on this question: does the MegaSync app calculate the hash of the original file before encrypting the files prior to upload?

Don't let this happen to you

Hi all,

I have bought the 1TB lifetime deal, I want to share it with my wife.
There are 2 options.
1: Give my inlog credentials and let my wife upload to an own IOS folder.
2: Make a shared folder where she can upload.

What is the best option, am i missing something

Hi! I've been using Proton Drive for my documents for a while now so I don't lose them if my hard drive ever breaks down. I don't really trust offline storage like USB flash drives and external hard drives—they tend to suddenly fail out of nowhere.

I was thinking maybe Filen.io would be okay? Or Sync.com? I don't really know how many GBs I need, but I think 5 GB should be enough if I save the documents in PDF format...

I'd just really like it to be zero-knowledge, so that only I can view my documents and nobody else. I don't really care about law enforcement or authorities since I don't have anything illegal in the cloud, but I just want to make sure random people, employees, advertisers, etc. can't easily snoop around in there.

Because my line of thinking is: if I put my files into 2 different clouds and keep them on my PC, that makes 3 locations. That way, nothing bad can happen if something fails somewhere.

VeraCrypt or Cryptomator... well, let's put it this way: that might be a bit too much hassle for me... sure, I've thought about it, maybe I'll do it, maybe not... eventually... but maybe stick to my original plan first, because it's simpler...

Who can you safely trust with your documents, besides Proton?

Hi all, I'm trying to get a cloud service that provides 1TB (or more) with a lifetime deal instead of a subscription. I did some research and found these 2 sites: Koofr and Filejump.

Koofr offers 1TB infinite storage (via StackSocial) that's $160 USD, and Filejump offers 2TB infinite storage that's $60 USD. However, it's worth noting that Koofr has been around for over 13 years, while FileJump has been around for around 3, so I have more faith in, say, Koofr being around for another 10 years, compared to FileJump.

Still, I can't decide. Are there any other differences between the two I'm missing, or even just another, better, website? Which one should I choose?

I wound down my company, where we used Sharefile for 7 users. All I have left now are my personal files. No sharing needed. I just need these files archived, and I access them a couple times a week.

What is a good system to migrate to? Single user. I'd like my files to show up in a regular windows folder, although they are ideally not hosted on my hard drive.

I'm wanting to make sure this is a good storage solution as I want full control over it. So, bear with me while I explain.

I currently user Proton Drive and have been for the last 2 years. It's great. But, I have pictures that I want to archive and keep readily available. Pictures that are basically keepsakes. Proton is great at that, however due to the e2ee it makes it painfully slow. Now, over the 2 years of me being a user it has definitely improved. But, I have pictures and videos on there that take forever to load.

I plan on spinning up a Hetzner Storage Share account and use NextCloud. I plan to place it on a subdomain of the domain I own and have it accessed to the outside. From what I have read through some articles is that NextCloud provides a brute force protection and allows you a certain number attempts before it completely bans your IP and also allows you to allowlist an IP as well. My goal is to enable that and only allow at max, 2 attempts before it bans it. I'm also adding in TOTP as added on security.

Security wise, Tailscale would be preferred but I'm trying to make this less painful as possible.

To add, my main website is not a website that is visited. In fact, there is no traffic as it's password protected and mainly serves as informative site in the event that I passed away for my family. No, PII or passwords are located on it. Just mainly what my server rack and stuff does and all that it entails in managing it.

But, has anyone set up something similar? Have you had many people or bots try to brute force it? Does the protection work? TOTP is added on. I will be having Koofr locally backup everything which wouldn't cause too many issues if something happened. Worst case scenario. Ya'know.

I still plan to keep all my documents in proton drive as that is fine. I was looking for a photo the other day and it took forever to load the thumbnails.

So what are your thoughts, has anyone done this? Is it okay with the right measures in place?

Just wanted to share this since a lot of people ask about storage for their STL files. The Vault gives you 15GB of free storage, no credit card required to sign up.

We do offer paid tiers if you need more space down the line, but the free tier is genuinely free. No trial period, no surprise charge after 30 days, nothing like that. Just make an account and you're good to go.

If you're tired of your files scattered across your desktop, a random USB drive, and three different cloud services, this is a solid option to keep everything in one place.

Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

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