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Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by qqg3 »

webwanderings wrote: post #45
buro9 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you expand on this? I'm assuming Box isn't a write-only file system as they'd have few customers if it was.

As someone else also mentioned it in the thread, my experience was that you could upload folders/files but when it comes to download back, I could not download the folders. I gave up the moment I saw that limitation. Dropbox doesn't have such restrictions, nor do any other such service I have experienced in the free tier.

Box allows you to download any files or folders. It's better than Dropbox in one respect because it automatically keeps a certain number of versions of a file (up to 25 I think) so you can easily backdate to a legacy copy in case of emergency.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by [deleted] »

webwanderings wrote: post #45
buro9 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you expand on this? I'm assuming Box isn't a write-only file system as they'd have few customers if it was.

As someone else also mentioned it in the thread, my experience was that you could upload folders/files but when it comes to download back, I could not download the folders. I gave up the moment I saw that limitation. Dropbox doesn't have such restrictions, nor do any other such service I have experienced in the free tier.

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Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by mattdeboard »

webwanderings wrote: post #46
GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I signed up during a 25GB free deal they had a while a go. I use it along side Dropbox and Google Drive and as far as I can tell it's as good as either of those.

Have you tried downloading back your files? Is it as seamless as Dropbox? The other day I signed up with SpiderOak (over the recent buzz about security and all) and luckily I had to share a folder with a friend in another country. He has the fastest bandwidth available but complained that his connection would drop during the downloads out of SpiderOak. I switched the content to Dropbox and he downloaded trouble free…

In my experience throughput is much lower on Box. Also there's no desktop client for Linux.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by KMag »

obviouslygreen wrote: post #40

This reminds me of a recent "for life" promotion having ended; it was some kind of virtual server hosting, I think. Bad advertising, in my opinion; this may or may not mean "free for the life of the service," which is the best possible case, since they have absolutely no way to guarantee this thing is available for the life of a user.

Well, they do have names and phone numbers. They could ensure the thing is available for the lifetimes of their users by hiring some assassins. I suppose technically taking out a hit doesn't guarantee results, but I really wouldn't argue that technicality with them if they started killing customers.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by KMag »

calvinlough wrote: post #29

Why do I have to provide my phone number to sign up?

They accepted my Hong Kong phone number, which has a plus in it and has a different number of digits than a U.S. number. Either they're using better phone number validation than 95% of sites, or they're not validating the phone number format at all.

Edit: I was able to activate my account and log in with out getting a txt or anything, so presumably you could make up a fake phone number with the wrong number of digits, and no real person would get spammy calls.

You could always try setting your phone number to Bobby'); DROP TABLE STUDENTS --

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by calvinlough »

KMag wrote: post #76
calvinlough wrote: post #29

Why do I have to provide my phone number to sign up?

They accepted my Hong Kong phone number, which has a plus in it and has a different number of digits than a U.S. number. Either they're using better phone number validation than 95% of sites, or they're not validating the phone number format at all. Edit: I was able to activate my account and log in with out getting a txt or anything, so presumably you could make up a fake phone number with the wrong number of digits…

I provided the single digit "1" and they accepted it right away. If they don't care if you provide a valid phone number I don't see why it should be a required field.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by digitalabyss »

Comparing Box.com with Dropbox is like comparing apples to oranges in my opinion. I have a 100GB dropbox account for personal use and a enterprise Box.com account for work. They are two different service aimed at different markets. Box.com has always primarily been driven by its web interface where I can count the number of times I have used the dropbox interface on one hand.

In a business environment you cant ask your clients to install software on their computers in order to share files with you. First off it may not be allowed by corporate policies or security controls and even if it is allowed would you install software a vendor asked you to install to accommodate their workflow? Box.net is absolutely awesome in a business environment and has allowed me to get rid of insecure FTP servers and clients trying to use their web browsers as FTP clients and blaming us when they did not work. Box.com also allows project managers to create and manage permissions on their own client folders freeing up IT from that task.

In short I would not give up either account.

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