Recommend you get Dropbox...

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Yeah, and Semper Fi gets an extra little bit of space for each person who clicks his referry link!!

So sign up. I already use it and it is great. You can also share the space (or parts of it) with others. I share a folder with my fellow-elder and we maintain church admin documents there, like preaching schedules etc.
 
Dropbox is great. The latest version (which you can download from their forums) has a LAN peer to peer syncing feature as well. There is also an iPhone app that is awaiting approval if Apple ever gets off their shiny, "just works" behinds.

The new website layout is also very nice, and it has a build in search function.
 
Does anyone else have an account through which I could link so I don't accidentally support Rich?
 
I signed up. Thanks for the referral - and you are welcome for the extra 250mb.
 
Spideroak is another contender you might consider. 100 GB per month for $10 ($5 if you have a .edu address). Sweet deal. Very secure. Syncs across both Macs and PCs flawlessly. It also gives 2 GB for free. It doesn't have a referral program (as far as I know), but $10 is pretty cheap. And even cheaper if you are a student!
 
Anna,

When installed, Dropbox creates a folder in your My Documents folder called My Dropbox. Any files you copy into or save into this folder are uploaded/synchronized with your Dropbox account. The files are then available on your Computer and online.

There are a couple of major benefits:
1. You have an online backup of important documents/files that you can recover in case of problems with your computer.
2. You can get to these files from any other computer by going to dropbox.com and logging into your account.
3. As Fred also noted, you can set up shared files within workgroups or with friends to easily share files.
 
Semper Fidelis said:
Anna,

When installed, Dropbox creates a folder in your My Documents folder called My Dropbox. Any files you copy into or save into this folder are uploaded/synchronized with your Dropbox account. The files are then available on your Computer and online.

There are a couple of major benefits:
1. You have an online backup of important documents/files that you can recover in case of problems with your computer.
2. You can get to these files from any other computer by going to dropbox.com and logging into your account.
3. As Fred also noted, you can set up shared files within workgroups or with friends to easily share files.
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Follow-up question: (This may be what 3 is talking about, but I'm slow at this stuff.) Our house is networked, plus Tim has another computer at church. Can we all upload to one account, or would we need multiple accounts?
 
Anna,

The beauty of Dropbox is that you can have multiple computers on one account (I have two), or you can share files/folders in the Dropbox (or even its entire contents)with another Dropbox account. This makes it very flexible. So in my entire system, I have set up several Dropbox accounts:

  1. My account
  2. My wife's account
  3. Our church (secretary's) account
  4. Our Associate Pastor's account.
Here's a PDF that shows visually how I have it working. It provides sharing, syncing (when my PC is offline, if I need a file, I can get it from my wife's computer) and backup. I've restored files from the "cloud" several times.

You can think of it as MobileMe that actually works, does more, and is not junk.
 
Can you create subfolders in the dropbox folder to keep things organized? I"m currently using Amazon's product (jungle disk) for daily backups but this looks better. Can it function as backup or is the main thing file sharing?
 
I'd love to use Dropbox, but the university where I work classifies it as a "file sharing" app like BitTorrents and blocks the IP port it uses.
 
NaphtaliPress said:
Can you create subfolders in the dropbox folder to keep things organized? I"m currently using Amazon's product (jungle disk) for daily backups but this looks better. Can it function as backup or is the main thing file sharing?
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It can function as both. I use it mostly for sharing/syncing, but that is because you don't (at least I don't) think about backups until I need it. But it is nice to know that all the files in MyDropbox can be easily restored if I have a complete meltdown.
 
If Anna and I both have multiple computers under the same account, does all of that count against the 2 GB limitation (under the free service)?

If we were to sign up under different accounts, how would this affect the service? Would be both be able to utilize 2 GB freely, but not be able to file share (which we can do on Vista as is, though not always "easily")?
 
So I downloaded this because my husband often works on things at school and at home (or so I can help him at home), but I am wondering if you need to save your document in My Documents AND dropbox, or just in your dropbox? What happens if dropbox changes someday and starts charging $$ and I didn't want to pay, or if dropbox fails or something...will you be able to access the My Dropbox folder in your My Documents folder forever, even if you someday quit the program?

Hope that question makes sense. Basically, should I save in My Documents AND My Dropbox (thus saving as two files on my computer) or just in the Dropbox?

Thanks!!
 
Semper Fidelis said:
Curt,

Just out of curiosity, how does Dropbox link to Macs? Is there a My Dropbox folder?
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It put a little icon on my toolbar. I just double click it to access it. On the PC (ugh) that I have at the church office, I have the same thing. I can just share between the two very easily.
 
he beholds said:
So I downloaded this because my husband often works on things at school and at home (or so I can help him at home), but I am wondering if you need to save your document in My Documents AND dropbox, or just in your dropbox? What happens if dropbox changes someday and starts charging $$ and I didn't want to pay, or if dropbox fails or something...will you be able to access the My Dropbox folder in your My Documents folder forever, even if you someday quit the program?

Hope that question makes sense. Basically, should I save in My Documents AND My Dropbox (thus saving as two files on my computer) or just in the Dropbox?

Thanks!!
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If you save it in MyDropbox, it stays on your computer. You don't need to save it twice.

If for some reason you cancel with Dropbox, the files will still be on your harddrive.
 
victorbravo said:
he beholds said:
So I downloaded this because my husband often works on things at school and at home (or so I can help him at home), but I am wondering if you need to save your document in My Documents AND dropbox, or just in your dropbox? What happens if dropbox changes someday and starts charging $$ and I didn't want to pay, or if dropbox fails or something...will you be able to access the My Dropbox folder in your My Documents folder forever, even if you someday quit the program?

Hope that question makes sense. Basically, should I save in My Documents AND My Dropbox (thus saving as two files on my computer) or just in the Dropbox?

Thanks!!
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If you save it in MyDropbox, it stays on your computer. You don't need to save it twice.

If for some reason you cancel with Dropbox, the files will still be on your harddrive.
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Yes. Think of the "My Dropbox" folder as like any subfolder in My Documents, that also syncs with the "cloud." If you cancel, it stays on your PC.

Also, Dropbox is working on allowing you to "watch" or sync any folder on your computer, which would remove the necessity of the My Dropbox folder.
 
Marrow Man said:
If Anna and I both have multiple computers under the same account, does all of that count against the 2 GB limitation (under the free service)?

If we were to sign up under different accounts, how would this affect the service? Would be both be able to utilize 2 GB freely, but not be able to file share (which we can do on Vista as is, though not always "easily")?
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If you have the same account, all files in the Dropbox will appear on both computers, and the content will count against the 2GB limit. But only once. So let's say you have one account with 500MB of files in it. The files appear on both PCs, and you have 1.5GB of space left.

If you have two accounts, whatever is in the Dropbox of each counts against its account. So if you have 500MB on PC#1, and you share it all with PC#2 (really easy to do), and 500MB on PC#2 that you do NOT share with PC#1, you end up with:

PC#1 used space: 500MB
PC#2 used space: 1GB (500MB shared, 500MB not shared).

You can see that visually in my screenshot. One advantage to multiple accounts: you can "refer" one person, and then when the second account signs up, you get another 250MB each.
 
Great advice all Fred. You gave me some ideas on how I can use it.

It just dawned on me today that it also provides for me a way to do something that has nagged me for a while that I currently use a process that requires I be very careful.

Although I use Gmail I also set it up to POP3 download the messages I want to store in various PST's in case I ever lose Gmail for whatever reason. Anyway, I have a personal desktop and a personal notebook and I don't want two PST files so I typically use Goodsync to copy one PST over the other. I just realized, however, that I can move my PST files into a Dropbox folder and keep them synced without having to keep track as the two computers are using the same Dropbox account.
 
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