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Alternative to Dropbox?

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John Elvin

03 Mar, 2021 04:04 PM

Using Moneydance the way I'd like to for my home accounts would cost me £10 per month!

I'll explain. I have Moneydance on my PC and my wife's PC. I have also been using it on the laptop we take away with us or on my Android mobile using the app. I can't do that without disabling one or other of the last two because Dropbox is limited to 3 devices on the free plan. The monthly Plus plan costs £9.99 per month.

Using Google drive as an example I can make a shared folder available to as many devices as I want for no extra cost.

Are you planning to add support for anything other than Dropbox? Their limiting to three devices has made it a very poor choice of platform!

1. 1 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 03 Mar, 2021 04:23 PM

   

   have you tried switching to dropbox connection on one of the machines... I have a sneaky feeling this might bypass the 3 limit, but not 100% sure

   (not support, just a fellow user)

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2. 2 Posted by derekkent23 on 03 Mar, 2021 04:26 PM

   

   I am not support staff, just a user.
   Hi John

   The Dropbox restrictions maybe not as bad as they first sound.
   The limit of 3 devices running Dropbox applications with a free account applies to the devices that can be connected to a Dropbox product itself, via official Dropbox applications, such as the official Dropbox desktop client or mobile applications.

   If your computers are using Dropbox Folder as a syncing method for Moneydance then as you have to have Dropbox Client installed, this count towards the limit. However, if you use Dropbox Connection and don’t have Dropbox Client installed, this does not count towards the limit. This limit does not apply to third party apps that connect to Dropbox via the Dropbox API. This includes the Dropbox Application Program Interface that is embedded in Moneydance mobile. Your mobile devices would only count towards the limit if you had Dropbox official app installed on your mobile devices for another reason.
   You can also mix Moneydance sync Methods on computers, say 3 computers using Dropbox Folder and any additional computers using Dropbox Connection. Another approach is if your wife were to have her own Dropbox account under her own email address and you set up the Moneydance folder “.moneydancesync” as a shared folder between the two accounts.

   Hope this helps.

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3. 3 Posted by John Elvin on 04 Mar, 2021 12:41 PM

   

   Thanks to both of you.

   I hadn't realised that to use syncing via Dropbox you didn't need to install the client, nor that you could use different sync methods for the same file on different devices. Most of the use of Moneydance is on my PC so continuing to use the Dropbox folder method makes sense. As Moneydance is the only thing I use Dropbox for, removing the Dropbox clients from my wife's PC, the laptop and mobile phone is very helpful.

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4. Melissa closed this discussion on 05 Mar, 2021 04:39 PM.