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PROS

Egnyte is scalable and stable.
It allows easy file movement, even to platforms like SharePoint.
Users can choose which folders to sync from the internet to their computer.
Egnyte enables co-authoring and document sharing with external users.
Small businesses find Egnyte simple and quick to set up.

CONS

If Egnyte had a better search capability, it would be helpful.
Currently, once someone exits Egnyte, it locks, and the last save overrides other changes.
Egnyte desktop sync initially experienced numerous bugs.
Authorization tokens expire quickly, especially after updates, disrupting saved drives.
Users cannot delete files mistakenly uploaded to Egnyte.
 

Egnyte Pros review quotes

PmAn6376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees
Oct 8, 2018
It is a good storage solution.
John Michael - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist II - Egnyte at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Aug 29, 2022
It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint.
reviewer1950252 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees
Aug 29, 2022
It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed.
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Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Operations at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 13, 2022
Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files.
reviewer1959516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
Sep 13, 2022
You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization.
GG
Chief Operating Officer at Quarem
Nov 14, 2022
From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic.
 

Egnyte Cons review quotes

PmAn6376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees
Oct 8, 2018
If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work.
John Michael - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist II - Egnyte at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Aug 29, 2022
Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync.
reviewer1950252 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees
Aug 29, 2022
The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want.
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Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Operations at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 13, 2022
You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error.
reviewer1959516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
Sep 13, 2022
As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need.
GG
Chief Operating Officer at Quarem
Nov 14, 2022
It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end.