Safest volume type (WebDAV, dokany, WinSFP etc) for dropbox on windows 10/11

[tobihagemann]

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• Is WebDAV being slowly phased out or it is expected to be maintained and to keep working as usual for years? The project seems to have stopped development a decade ago, is this correct / being phased out?

It will most likely keep working as usual for years. There won’t be significant updates for it though, WebDAV integration is pretty much “done”.

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• Is one or the other (Webdav/WinFSP) more compatible with dropbox or is this not relevant in any way?

It’s not really about compatibility with a cloud storage but more like compatibility with the operating system and applications. In our opinion, compatibility with WinFsp is higher than with WebDAV.

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• Does WinFSP require frequent updating? Also, is it normally updated manually (e.g. with cryptomator updates) or does it do background updates that could break things sometimes? I am asking as I would like to stick with a stable Cryptomator/WinFSP version for long time to avoid surprise bugs that could affect critical files (despite other offline backups it would still be a problem for me).

I wouldn’t say “required” but more like “recommended”. You don’t “have to” update WinFsp. It is and will be included in the EXE installer of Cryptomator but you can also download the MSI installer without WinFsp from Cryptomator’s website.