Obvious advantage of MEGA is that it can sync individual folders located on different disks (almost all cloud storage softwares require moving all synced files into a single folder and this is extremely inconvenient). Another excellent feature is that it shows you what files it is currently syncing and shows you a log of recently synced files (many other softwares operate in a completely non-transparent manner, so a user is completely out of control of what’s happening). Compared to other cloud storage softwares, it uploads files quickly. Now about unpleasant things that make MEGA problematic. First, it adds ‘desktop.ini’ file into each synced folder. Other softwares can “somehow” work without this. Second, files deleted/overwritten in a synced folder get moved to a hidden (!) folder called ‘.rubbish’ (in Windows) located inside (!) each local synced folder. As a result, your synced folders became full of garbage while you may be unaware of this because it is hidden! Third, it eats cloud storage very quickly due to either versioning or moving files to rubbish bin. If you work with large autosaving files (for example, OneNote files), your cloud storage will be expended quickly. There is no acceptable combination of software settings to prevent this – obviously, MEGA creates a situation when you’ll need to upgrade your plan with more cloud storage. No, girls, this doesn’t work in my case ;θ) Customer support is not too fast and asks you a lot of irrelevant questions (what operating system? what version? what browser? mobile or desktop? web or app? take a screenshot or record a video etc.) instead of focusing on your straightforward question. After testing MEGA for two weeks, my decision was to uninstall MEGA and forget about it.
