[ale] Dropbox opinions wanted

[James Taylor]

Just an FYI -
If you have an externally accessible box, you can install ifolder and
get equivalent or better functionality for free.

http://www.kablink.org

-jt

 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> 9/15/2010   01:19 PM >>> 
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On 9/15/10 10:42 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Since I'm always a bit skeptical of "free" things, I wanted opinions
of 
> the (basic) Dropbox service.
> 
> How secure is it and how happy are others using it?
> 
> If you decided against Dropbox, why and what do you use?


I love it, keeps my five machines (1 Windows, 1 Peppermint OS, 3 Mac)
in
harmony, plus my wife and I share files between accounts (things like
our budgets and stuff) and not only does it allow us to always work
with
the most current version, but I can see when she's working on stuff
(thanks to autosave) and know not to be futzing with things.
I pay for the 50GB account while the wife remains on the freebie.

I use TrueCrypt and store one encrypted volume for sensitive personal
materials and one for sensitive work materials. My iTunes stuff uses
the
same library files, so I always have m¥ important music handy.

And, with the release of the Android app, I can always get my files
there too.

Oh, and then I do evil things like, oh, send remote commands to my
other
machines via a folder they all look in.

And of course, being able to go to the web interface and call up a
previous version of a file in case I horked something is always nice
too.  Haven't had to use it yet, though I tested it when I first signed
up.

Can you tell I like it?

Brian


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