Appreciate that @TheMartius we try our best!
Thank you Tom, will give it a go!
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I would say it is because they are Independent Tech, not Big Tech, it makes a difference.
Big Tech only care about making money, and influencing politics these days.
Not saying Indie Tech don’t want to make money, that is the whole point of setting up a business, but at least the IceDrive team are open to suggestions, appreciate feedback and if they can make a product people want with multiple features and plans, then that customer satisfaction gets positive reviews, word of mouth, and that will trickle down to new customers which will get them established as a big player in the cloud storage market.
When I was looking for cloud storage, I looked at OneDrive (Microsoft) and Google Drive, but the prices are stupid, and they had few options to choose from, I suspect they rely on brand recognition/loyalty to get customers, plus with the free 5gb and 15gb they offer for free respectively, and that they hook you on the easy and familiar interfaces.
I was going to go with Currys PC World as they were doing like 5 TB dirt cheap, but the feedback was awful, yeah, lots of space for a great price, but slow upload/downloads, poor interface, worse customer service.
IceDrive were new but were already popping up on recommended lists, plus they had spread out on to social platforms, were answering questions, but most importantly, the price for a year was better than all big tech firms, the lifetime price is astounding.
Being a UK resident, it also mattered that they were a Wales based firm, and it is always a good thing to support home grown product you believe in, I was a believer after just one month, once I upgraded my mobile Wi-Fi device to 4G+ in the summer and it all fell into place while using it at work.
Just great to have the tools to make a difference.
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Thanks, we really appreciate the kind feedback.
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Overall icedrive is great, the only issues I am experiencing (pretty much from the beginning I started using it) would be these:
- Trash directory: since I’m using a lot via webdav + rclone, when I delete a file it get moved to the trash, but from a webdav mount, there is no way to empty the trash, so every now and then I’m forced to empty the trash via the web gui, and is very annoying since transhed file count the used space. In my opinion file deleted via webdav should be gone forever, or at least add an option for that, or add an option to delete the files in the trash after X time is passed.
- Headless clients: your mounts for windows/linux works, but there is no way to integrate those is headless scripts or in headless linux systems, and the webdav reliability is still a bit hit&miss
- As already reported the Android app is a bit wonky and sometimes get stuck even on high end phones, and I dont know why but it randomly log me out after updates which is annoying
Other than that its pretty good!
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Hey @Sergio , welcome to the community! 
I will pass the message on to dev team regarding your points about WebDAV & Linux. The android logging out issue is something we are aware of and as you can see in the thread below, we have addressed it and will be keeping an eye on this issue:
Icedrive has taken Online Storage by storm , The direction I’d like Icedrive to do go is the suite route.
Like Proton mail. Introducing IceMail /IceVPN etc.
I think this will take Icedrive up to a new level.
Hey @Corra, @Anon, thanks for both your feedback. I think for the moment our dev team are very much concentrating on making our current services the best they can be by improving and enhancing our features along with introducing some new ones. We very much appreciate the feedback though and will consider for the future.
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Thx Anon and Chris for the input , I still love Icedrive , lets scratch it up to castles in the sky from my side.
I love the speed of viewing my files (mainly photographs) in icedrive, it’s quicker than anything else I tried. I have created a new topic with some suggestions for future updates:
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Hey Tom,
Is there any option to lock icedrive portable in windows,because whenever i open that portable exe file my account already logged in.
so i need to make sure when i close my portable app then it ask me a code like android app or any fingerprint access because my laptop has fingerprint.
Hey @TheMartius you you need to log out of your session in the portable app by going to your settings and then clicking unlink account. This will log you out of your session.
hey bro i know this but i am asking for a security pin feature in portable app so that i can avoid login logout everytime.
- Option to throttle upload bandwidth. Currently, synchronisation saturates my available upload, to the detriment of download.
- Option to specify different sync intervals for different directories. Great to sync my email directory hourly (for example) but other directories I’d like to just sync daily (Although this is partly to mitigate the issue noted above!)
- Sync changes rather than upload the entire file. Frustrating if I change metadata attributes on my music library for example.
Thanks in anticipation!
Hi @jorganmeister Welcome to the community! Thanks for the feedback, I will pass this on to the dev team.
When is the android update coming?
Hey @Navin Welcome to the community! The android update is currently in internal testing, this will officially release very soon. Please stay tuned for any announcements.
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Love the product. I wonder if you could change the GUI so that when it displays a list of folders, it also indicates the size of that folder. Sometimes I find that whereas I thought materials had been uploaded and there is a folder reflecting this, some of the contents is missing. It would be much easier to compare the folder size on my local machine to the folder size on IceDrive, rather than having to open every folder, count the number of files and either check the size of each file, or calculate the sum of all the files.
Thank for considering.
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