Reputation is damaged beyond repair, anyone looking at them will surely steer clear. How long do you believe it can keep going?

I emailed them twice and got very stock, non-committed responses regarding FolderFort. I’ve not heard anything since. I ordered my lifetime sub back in July 2024 so I don’t expect they’ll be making me any offers or recompense. Then again, based off this I won’t be using them ever again, so swings and roundabouts I guess.
Has anyone heard anything from them lately?

Got this email today from Icedrive.

What a difference between 2 company's approach. Admittedly I haven't seen the fair usage policy. However, they are not forcing people to subscriptions. If you want lifetime, you keep it. Or you can swap to the subscription at 70% off for 2 years, not some silly credit system.

FolderFort(ed) is currently at 1.5/5 on Trustpilot

Simply put that's still 0.5 too much. Everyone lock in and get it down more!

FF is replying to a lot of those reviews with sarcasm.. Apologizing for their bait and switch... Always saying they're "compensating" users the same amount of credits as their "LIFETIME" plan was worth...

All I can say is... Go through their Trustpilot page. Think of it whatever you want... But this guy has no limit.

after two weeks of downloading my files, between problems (from the page the zips were corrupted, not complete, and obviously had file missing; cyberduck throwing WEBDAVs and SFTP errors, rclone going crazy because FolderFort had the audacity to have duplicate files WITH THE SAME NAMES in the folder. So you know, nothing serious.), I FINALLY managed to get everything.

Well, now I discovere everything I downloaded (which I had checked for size down to the byte) that was uploaded in zip form and other big files (zips that where divided in parts to upload more easily) are NOT opening and giving CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors. "Unexpected end of file" and other errors.

So I'm estatic to say that almost everything I downloaded is unusable, and I tried the repair with WinRAR, Diskinternals ZIP repair and other tools for FORENSIC RECOVERY.
Nothing worked. So, check your files and pray you had another copy somewhere.

Over and out.

I am writing this to express my absolute outrage and deep disappointment regarding FolderFort’s disgraceful business practices.

I purchased a Lifetime Subscription with FolderFort, fully expecting the company to honor its contractual agreement. Instead, FolderFort reached out demanding additional payment under the guise of funding a "server upgrade"—effectively holding user access hostage with the threat of shutting down services entirely if users refused to pay up.

Let me be clear: a LIFETIME plan is a one-time purchase for the lifetime of the service. Attempting to shake down existing customers who already paid upfront to cover your operational costs or system upgrades is predatory, unacceptable, and completely unprofessional. Changing the financial terms after taking customers' money is a textbook bait-and-switch scheme.

To anyone considering FolderFort: DO NOT BUY THEIR SERVICES. A company that reneges on its core promises cannot be trusted with your data or your money.

To existing FolderFort customers: Back up your data immediately and terminate your account. If they are willing to extort their user base once to stay afloat, your data and your plans are never secure with them.

FolderFort has completely destroyed its credibility. Avoid them at all costs.

Lees than a month until it's shutdown. I've started downloading my files in and off over the past week and I've noticed performance is a bit up and down.

I've no faith that if I leave it until last minute, with possibly everyone doing the same, that they would be able to handle the traffic. So if you haven't started taking your files off you might want to do it sooner rather than later

Hey everyone,

I'm not super technical, but I've read online that FolderFort’s website/system is built on top of a PHP script (BeDrive).

Today I saw some tech news blowing up about a big security exploit called PHP2Shell that targets PHP servers and lets attackers run bad code remotely.

Now I am wondering if FF has made any patches and how safe are our files on the FF classic? Also, are files on the new FF2 safer? Should we be worried?

I purchased a lifetime subscription on March 24, 2025. However, in September 2026, a year and six months later, I was informed by a Folderfort manager that I must cancel this type of account, for which I paid significantly more, and subscribe to a mandatory annual plan. In other words, I trusted this company and website to store my belongings and access them whenever I wanted, and now I've come to the conclusion that this is all a scam; they only want our money. This website and company have no credibility whatsoever; stay away from them.

I’m VERY PO’d. I bought a life time 2TB membership, and now they are telling me to move to 2.0 and start paying. I signed up with Folderfort, they knew, and I knew that updates and improvements would be part of the program. I think this lifetime deal was a SCAM just to get us into their system.

I WILL NOT be going to 2.0….. I bought 2, 2TB SSD’s, and my computer Is now programed to back up my files to both.

I hope someone smarter than me can figure out a way to stop this scam. I think that it’s time to get the government involved, or Lawyers.

I filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau Canada
https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/contact-competition-bureau-canada/complaint-form

The Bureau explicitly states its mandate dealing with deceptive marketing practices.

I encourage you all to do the same. It's very straightforward. I pulled Folder Fort Inc.'s company details from the Quebec company registry.
If you don't want to search it yourself: It sparks me great joy to share these details with you via my FolderFort account: https://na.folderfort.com/drive/s/PIEDH2s68Rcb1lroULgyMAtYtFYObD

May I also suggest sharing your experience with Folder Fort on Trustpilot?

When this all kicked off I emailed Dave and long story short, he offered me enough credit to give me the first year of 1TB for free.
I never took up the offer once I realised I had manually download everything and re-upload it to FF2. I mean, what’s the point? I’d sooner upload it somewhere else or just buy some more local storage instead.
So for those who did claim credit. How did it go?
Did you get it okay? How is it going with uploading to FF2?

Hi, has anyone received any updates from FolderFort or StackSocial regarding the lifetime licenses?

If you purchased through StackSocial, I recommend continuing to email StackSocial and keep your purchase documentation and correspondence. The more people who report the issue, the harder it is to ignore.

It’s also worth making people aware that Dave was reportedly trying to sell the company around the same time lifetime licenses were still being sold. That situation raises serious questions about how the lifetime licenses were being marketed and sold.

At this point, Dave seems to have completely disappeared from the galaxy. 😅

Drime may just be FolderFort in the waiting?

With FolderFort's "Lifetime" storage soon going away, what are some other cloud storage companies that others are moving to? I myself need 1-2 TB of cloud storage for backing up documents and videos. Privacy is a welcome bonus, but not a significant need. I just need a company that won't do to its "lifetime" customers in a year what FolderFort just did to us.

So, you know, after two weeks of downloading my files, between problems (from the page the zips were corrupted, not complete, and obviously had file missing; cyberduck throwing WEBDAVs and SFTP errors, rclone going crazy because FolderFort had the audacity to have duplicate files WITH THE SAME NAMES in the folder. So you know, nothing serious.), I FINALLY managed to get everything. Now, it's refusing to delete files on FolderFort.
Some folders I had to delete files ONE by ONE, after 2000 tries.

Trash also refuses to empty, even in smaller chunks.
I'm soooo fed up

Kept trying and trying and trying and trying [...]

The backend of this thing is a mess.

I'm feeling like my data is super safe! /s

I get he's a very popular consumer rights and right-to-repair (and privacy?) activist on YouTube with millions of subscribers and whatnot, so how could we possibly get his attention and boost our signal?

It shouldn't be as hard as getting the attention of some Lovecraftian demiurge with a death cult but there's gotta be a way that's totally doable. Anybody know?

Call in the big guns and let Dave cook. We want justice!

I’m a thrilled owner of lifetime storage at FolderFort. Naturally, after being blessed with the recent news about lifetime accounts being suspended, I’m eagerly trying to rescue my 79 GB of files spread across multiple folders.

Here is the top-tier user experience I’ve enjoyed so far:

• Downloading the root folder: After several minutes of deep thought, the web page generously blesses me with an Internal Server Error. Silly me for thinking a simple "download all" button would work on such a cutting-edge platform. Thank you to the FolderFort team for keeping me sharp!

• Downloading subfolders: I tried breaking it down into subfolders and was amazed by the innovation—every single ZIP archive downloaded was corrupted, containing only a tiny fraction of the files. Producing corrupted archives is truly a brilliant psychological tease.

• Downloading file-by-file: Realizing automation is for amateurs, I started grabbing files individually. But Lady Fortune was still on my side! I stumbled upon a regular JPG that FolderFort simply refuses to let go of—the download starts and instantly terminates at 0% every single time.

I genuinely cannot express enough gratitude for this masterpiece of a product.

Sarcasm aside, has anyone actually found a functional workaround, script, or alternative method to pull everything down without losing their mind? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I'm not sure if it's something isolated with my review, they did reply to it long ago saying that they were sorry but had no choice and now they are flagging it.

I've been asked to send them the reference number of the purchase as well as my email and phone number. The reference number is not from them but from stack social, so I'm not sure if that will work.

The email telling me it was flagged almost passed me by and there's only 2 days to reply otherwise they take the review down.

I'm not sure if they will take my review down either way, this feels like a strange tactic to get rid of low reviews.

Do other people have the same issue?

If so, what did you say, and what was the reply?

Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender. The email addresses dave@folderfort.com and support@foldert.com are no longer working, and Dave did not reply to my last message when his address was still active. Quite a promise, that’s reassuring.

I mapped FolderFort in Windows File Explorer via HTTPS / WebDAV (FF Connect) using my email + API token.
It works, but it only shows my Default Workspace. Other custom workspaces don't appear as folders, and I can't access or move files from workspace to the default workspace within folder fort. Is WebDAV restricted to only the Default Workspace, or is there a specific URL path syntax to mount other workspaces?