What are /r/pcloud's favorite Products & Services?

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There is a service called ToSDR, where people reads the terms of services of services and summarizes them. It' pretty neat.

Here is the one for pCloud: https://tosdr.org/en/service/2429

I decided to use Mega instead of pCloud. I need offline access for syncronising my music library, so now I use MegaSync - this application update my music folder on smartphone every hour. So, I can add a new song to the music folder on PC, and than it will be download to smartphone automatically.

If you need just offline acces just use Mega app. It has this feature, and you can find your offline files on your storage without problems.

Have you ever heard of NordVPN? Well, if you go to their site, they have a huge discount for their service with a countdown timer ⏲️. They have this timer every day. It’s marketing.

PCloud has the same outrageous discounts for a lifetime service. One wonders how they remain profitable by giving away free bandwidth without a constant revenue.

Don’t trust pCloud with your data. Only use it for storage. Example: use encrypted containers 🫙 with Cryptomator/NordLocker to store your data in pCloud.

Never trust something that’s too good to be true. If you are really paranoid, buy a NAS. It’s the best thing you can do for yourself. I have a movie server 🍿 there that be accessed on my TVs, phones, and even the web.

Same here, except I'm using Windows 10 and Perfect Privacy VPN. PCloud icon randomly gets grey and upload stops. I've veen trying to upload 50GB for several days now. First it went to 40GB then back to 44.7GB when the VPN manager disconnected for a few seconds. I have no idea which files were uploaded. The number of remaining files doesn't change and appears stuck at 6000 something. Upload speed with VPN and without is also laughably slow. Somewhere between 100 and 700KB/s. It should be 5000-10.000KB/s.

Another thing is, I can only use it with WLAN for the padt couple month. When I disable my WLAN adapter and connect via LAN it says no connection. Tried everything. Reinstalled the drive manager at least 3 times.

If these errors persist for much longer I will have to cancel my subscription. Altough I'm kinda fucked because pClouds holds my Crypto files hostage. The manager only lets me download 1 file at a time... If I drag and drop more than a few files at a time I get E/A error. Imagine having to download 1TB files one at a time, I'd go insane. There is no option to create Zip archives in the Crypto folder. Fuck this buggy cloud service, I knew I should have went with MEGA.

Worst part is, I actullay like pCloud when it works, especially on my phone and for sharing files all around my house.

Yeah that is what I was worried about. I want to sync text files across Windows/Linux/Android machines and edited them with Logseq application.

Do you have any experience with Metacrtl - Autosync app ? That seems like only way to do it.

You can always edit your MKV video and remove all audio tracks except german. If you have one audio track pCloud will use it to convert mp4 preview. I can see that sometimes pCloud can't find any audio track, I don't know if it is a codec problem or not, but it happens.

You can use software like mkvtoolnix to edit MKV videos: https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

Can you use rclone to do the job?

Just create two profiles (one for OneDrive) and another for pcloud and then just use ```

rclone move -vP ondrive:"Folder" pcloud:"Folder" ``` That should do the trick.

My bad,

rclone is a command line program that really helps working with cloud providers. https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_dedupe/

its free, open source, and has a lot of functionality to make interacting with different cloud providers.

They have a special function called dedupe (I linked it) and it allows you to deduplicate your files in the cloud pretty easily.

No worries, if you do decide to switch rclone supports pcloud and most major cloud storage providers.

https://rclone.org/
If you'd rather not download all your data to your computer you can pay for a VPS online to move the data quickly and cancel it. This wouldn't cost much as you're usually being charged by the hour.

I use Kodi on my Android TV. To access pcloud from there, I run an instance of rclone in my network (on my pi.hole rasberry pi) and this can access pcloud sufficiently fast and is able to run a fast local webdav server presenting the pcloud content, which then can be used from Kodi. Works very well for me.

I run this on my headless server as well. Create the app first and then follow the same process for adding it using a remote setup. https://rclone.org/remote_setup/

I had to delete my rclone config and create a new connection on my headless server.

I mailed them about both back in December. For both of these issues they told me to reinstall FUSE for macOS manually. That suggestion did nothing to address either defect.

I tried mailing about both again the other day. They sent back the same suggestion.

• If it launches at Startup but another program launches before it which displays a window, pCloud kills Finder but doesn't restart it again. I have to manually relaunch Finder each time I start my machine or prevent one of two other programs from running at startup.

• The option to disable Finder integration doesn't actually disable Finder integration. It still adds hooks that cause Finder to occasionally hang in callbacks to pDrive.

• It installs and relies on the FUSE framework for its filesystem implementation, but does not play well with other programs that may have installed FUSE (eg., Parallels or ExpanDrive) unless they use the exact same version of FUSE. pDrive should install its own isolated copy, or it should be fixed to be compatible with newer versions of FUSE.

• It doesn't properly control the size of what appear to be its cache files, sometimes chewing dozens of extra gigabytes of drive space.

I have actually never used own/nextcloud. Would you say it's close to Dropbox in Linux functionality? Dropbox's Linux support might suck but it sucks the least of all sync providers I've tried (Dropbox, Google Drive, Seafile, pCloud, + something I forgot).

Yesterday I came across Jottacloud because someone on Reddit mentioned it and it seemed really interesting, but when actually trying it out and reading their forums their velocity seems really low. Their Linux CLI client does not have sync, just one way backup from your machine to their servers. So there goed another candidate :-(

(Wrt own/nextcloud: I don't want to run my own servers so I'd need so external party offering support for it.)

this used to be the recommended one but has not received an update for 1.5 years. You may want to try. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite

I wrote an email to MetaCtrl who said it's in his tentative plan. And you can look for something that does generic WebDav sync and post your experience.

>folder, these files are not downloaded automatically to storage. S

TryYandexDisk. It has offline feature and as I know new files download automatically to the storage.