Cloud Storages Compared - Part 2

  In Part 1, I go through the various pros and cons of a select few cloud providers, and what I discover as I'm test using the services. Read Part 1 first and then let's continue our discovery here.

STATUS ICONS

 I have to correct myself about kDrive not visually signaling the difference between offline and online files with status icons, it actually works. I noticed he same phenomena happening with DropBox status icons which are similar looking. Grey cloud icon, file in the cloud only, free checkmark, file on local drive and in the cloud.

 The problem according to Infomaniak (makers of kDrive), is that too many File Providers create confusion on the whole system, and status icons tend to disappear. If you turn other apps File Providers off and on again, the kDrive/DropBox status icons appears. It's kind of random.

 It is weird that this affects every file and folder on the Mac considering each provider should only be concerned by their dedicated sync folder, not the folders of their peers. I suppose Apple has only implemented an all or nothing function at this point. Needs improvements.

 (*) Note that Mega nor Jotta have a cloud only option, so the status icons are only there to indicate upload in progress (red), or file fully uploaded to the cloud (green.)

USER SPECIFIED FOLDER

 iCloud, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, and Internxt do not let user specify a local folder. Instead the sync folder goes to: User/youruser/Library/CloudStorage. You cannot change the location. I don't fully understand this behavior. Google explanation as to how this is supposed to work makes it even more confusing. Depending on your needs, that might work or not for you.

Cloud Provider	Status Icons	User Specified Folder	Movies Preview	Rename Extension	Detailed Info
iCloud	Yes	No	Yes	No	Basic
OneDrive	Yes	No	Bad	No	Basic+
Mega	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic
GoogleDrive	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Basic
Internxt	Yes	No	Yes**	No	Basic
kDrive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic
DropBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Best
Drime	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Basic
JottaCloud	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic/None

MOVIES PREVIEWS

 Common encoding schemes like h264 are recognized, but others (like ProRes) are not, and so there is no preview for these less common codecs across the board.

 OneDrive previews are an abomination, they look awful like they are over compressed (for the sake of quick access I suppose), which makes the experience borderline useless.

(**)  Internxt is the only one that systematically fails at previewing most movie files, including ".mov" and common codecs. Only previews that work seem to be h264 ".mp4".

RENAME EXTENSION (Web App behavior)

 iCloud, OneDrive, Internxt do not allow you to change the extension of a file in the web app. You cannot rename a ".mov" file as ".mp4" for example. I do not like that.

DETAILED INFO

 Most providers only provide basic information, type of file, size, location. OneDrive gives you some useful info like frame size. DropBox is by far the best with info about capturing device, resolution, frame rate, color space, and even codec. All the others are pale in comparison.