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A Google Drive Alternative - Maestral

A Google Drive Alternative - Maestral

I have tried using Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud of course. Among all, this Dropbox client really stood out as low energy impact syncing service. Which I would like to share with you.

Here is the walkthrough video

Maestral

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  • DropBox client - which means you need to register an account on Dropbox for it to work.
  • Download Maestral on their official website. (Again, it’s free and open source, no worries.)



Reason To Use

  • Free and open source (So they don’t do sketchy stuff)
  • Lightweight - battery saving and improve laptop performance.
  • Easy to setup (Under a few minutes, you have a fully working syncing folder)



Worth Noting

  • Google drive has been buggy for me syncing on macOS and it consume a lot of memory.
  • Dropbox official client uses a lot of memory.

Their github repo.



I will keep on finding services like this, stay tuned!

Cheers

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Article title:A Google Drive Alternative - Maestral
Article author:Hong C.
Release time:Nov 3, 2023
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