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I know there's been a bit of storage/back-up chat in the last few pages so bear with me.
Like @Muppetteer I need to pull and store a load of files. I currently use Dropbox and I have just enough space on there that I could upload to it, but then that doesn't leave me much room for regular working.Have more than one machine? Got a NAS somewhere? Run Syncthing!
Syncthing is like Dropbox, but way more powerful... and you run it on all your machines (like the Dropbox client), and it's free, 100% free.
There is no cloud component, each machine connects to the other, etc. But if you have a NAS then put Syncthing on that, and it becomes your always available cloud available instance.
The sync is peer to peer... so when you're on the same network you sync at the speed of the local network.
You can also set up multiple sync directories with entirely different criteria and choose which ones are available to which machines... and that is the killer feature. Have your larger machines sync everything, have smaller machines only sync their working set, hell... I have my mobile phone run Syncthing for it's Downloads directory which makes my mobile downloads instantly available on my laptop.
Basically... Syncthing kicks ass, but is absolutely incredible if you have an always on computer to run it on, like a NAS.
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I know there's been a bit of storage/back-up chat in the last few pages so bear with me.
Like @Muppetteer I need to pull and store a load of files. I currently use Dropbox and I have just enough space on there that I could upload to it, but then that doesn't leave me much room for regular working. I'm up for buying 2TB icloud but I've never used it before.
Can you use it like Timemachine to make staged backups rather than working from it like dropbox? Does anyone regularly use it from a PC? I know you can, just wondered if it's a pain.
Secondly, I've been using a Surface Pro as my main machine for the last few months, and rather like it. Currently using with an external screen, keyboard and mouse, but I do also use it a lot for drawing on. I haven't ever used it in tablet mode. I'm going to have to give it back, and wondered about getting an iPad Pro or replacing the Surface Pro. Any thoughts?
I've always had MBP as my main personal machine but used to using whatever. I like being able to draw on the screen more than I thought I would, and it's pretty essential for WFH now. I mostly use Office plus Adobe PS/InD/Illus. Is it ok for that? I'm currently in Microsoft 365 world - and the desktop apps are better for Windows, but don't know if that will continue. Can you Bootcamp/Parallels an ipad? I've never had to do it on any machine, just wondering in case I need to use Revit...