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Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Dropbox for Online Files

- Matt Faulkner

I put a post up the other day about a new version of FolderShare - now another player has been introduced to me - Dropbox.  Dropbox is still in a closed beta, but the features make it look rather interesting.  There is a cool video on their site, take a look and see what you think.

There sure is starting to be more options out there for online file storage/syncing...  I think the 'cloud' and local combination is one I can work with - I don't think I am in the 'cloud' only club just yet...  Am I the only one that wants to have a local copy too??



3/13/2008 2:26 PM MST  

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Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:39:15 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
This seems to be similar to Windows Live SkyDrive and other similar products. It's a great idea, in my opinion, as a backup tool and quick-access tool for documents you need on multiple computers, but like you said, I want a local copy. I also don't like the thought of depending on Internet access to access my files.
GoodThings2Life
Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:08:42 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
When the reliability of your internet connection reaches telephony standards (99.9999% availability, or less than one hour outage per year) then maybe a cloud connection can be deemed reliable enough. The problem is that we are really, really far away from that level of reliability with most ISPs.
Mark (K0LO)
Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:09:50 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I just want Foldeshare to be able to also sync to my skydrive, then i would be very happy. I really like the simple interface on both Foldershare and Skydrive.
Could use a better wat to track my friends skydrives accounts, then "recently view" (maybe there is a better way??)

And ofc, if foldershare could run on my X800 WM6.0 that would also be very very nice. I mean why should i be limitet to only have my files on desktop, laptop and internet, when i also sometimes need them on my phone.
Elmstrom
Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:47:01 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I can't imagine someone having no local copies of any files that matter. I can understand things like computer game save files or something, but for example, recent bugs in cloud apps have resulted in Contact Lists being exposed to hackers, extensive loss of data... and that is where I'm supposed to store my project development documents? My presentations? Not a chance.

When it's behind my router and firewall, on my hard drive, mirrored to my tablet, and backed up encrypted to Mozy with versioning every few hours, then I know where I stand. The chance of two of those links in the chain going bad simultaneously is incredibly unlikely... the chance of all three, statistically all-but-impossible. However, the odds of losing data in a cloud app seem relatively likely from where I sit... or at least having your data available to anyone with some hacking knowledge.
Jeff_R
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