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#Amazon drive desktop for windows manual

It seems more like manual sync than automatic, in-line sync (Dropbox-style, like odrive provides) through Finder/Explorer.How to enable Amazon Drive to sync local files GOODSYNC: Goodsync seems to show up in search results, but when I look at their website product pictures, it doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence. Separately, as seen from google web searching. I own a Drobo, so I couldn't use these, but I would have liked to have tried them out if I could. I've seen this come up in several forums (usually it's odrive and arq that are mentioned), but I haven't used this before.Д¬LOUDSYNC and QNAP: Specific solutions if you own a NAS from Synology or QNAP. They also have a 'Backup' product as well which supports Amazon Drive.ДЄRQ: Backup solution. Not sync, but could be effective for just getting files up. It looks interesting if you are worried about backing up stuff that is already in the Amazon Drive / don't trust Amazon Drive to be completely reliable or available.Д¬LOUDBERRY: They have an 'Explorer' product which looks like an S3 Browser or Cyberduck-like interface to different storage. But it's a little different than sync.Д¬LOUDHQ: this looks like it replicates stuff between clouds, which is different than syncing files between your computer and Amazon Drive. This is probably good if you're always connected to the internet and are working with smaller files. So it's more like direct saves to the source. I've used odrive for a while and I like it a lot because I have a lot of cloud storage accounts (in addition to Amazon Drive), so it helps me stay organized.Д®XPANDRIVE: they seem to offer a 'network drive' style interface. There's a video which shows how sync works (similar to Dropbox/Google Drive), but there's a twist about how it has placeholder files to save disk space. ODRIVE: odrive seems to be the straightforward choice since it is one of the top Featured Apps and specifically mentions desktop sync in its description. The Amazon Drive app gallery is a good place to look. I also found Cloudberry's offerings to be useful for manually copying back and forth from my older Win XP machine, which odrive will not support. So, now I can more wholeheartedly endorse it as something that can provide a Dropbox-like file syncing experience with Amazon Cloud drive. In addition to the Windows (7+) and Mac GUI versions, they also now have a 'headless' version which runs on Linux, Windows, or Mac (using Python, so perhaps anywhere Python will run as well?) Access to multiple cloud storage solutions in a Dropbox-like way with a single client program.Д®DIT: I've found a solution to the high CPU usage on Windows if I disable 'expand to current location' by right-clicking in the folder pane of File Explorer, then it no longer noticeably bogs the CPU down. I've found it to be a decent piece of software, though the CPU usage is a bit high at times on my Windows 8 machine. Odrive supports syncing to/from various cloud storage services, including Amazon Cloud Drive.