The odrive client can be a sync client replacement for all of those source-specific clients. We’ll give you:
- Fast and reliable sync
- Progressive sync (so we don’t try to sync everything in your account immediately when you set it up–if you have a lot of data in those services, you’ll really appreciate this)
- Our own unified sharing capabilities (share weblinks to folders/files, or use our Spaces add-on to share folders in odrive collaboratively)
- Ability to purchase and use our Unsync, Pro, and Encryption add-ons (see https://www.odrive.com/add-ons) against any source.
…and more.
So even people that want to replace a single source-specific client for the above capabilities can do so.
But people that use more than one service or that want to link more than one account from the same service will find the odrive client especially useful. So yes, by all means, go ahead and install odrive so you can uninstall those other clients.
And, yes, there is the duplicate file problem (each sync client maintains its own set of locally synched files). But if you uninstall the other source-specific desktop clients, you will then be able to eliminate the duplicate files on your hard drive, too, since the only client you need is the odrive one.
Finally, if disk space is of special concern to you, check out our Unsync add-on which can help give you in-line selective sync capabilities with placeholder files.
Thanks,
-Jeff