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Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#82I've already got a 50GB Box account through a free promo a while ago...but the account has file size limitations unless you pay for an upgrade. I'd assume this deal has the same restrictions. I forget the upload size limit, but it was enough to keep me from actually using them for my personal needs. I pay $25/year for 25GB of Amazon cloud storage, which includes unlimited music storage and no upload limits. I'm happy…
Git Annex can store to it, and it enables automatic file chunking.
To Amazon or Box?
Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#83My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
> I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox First thing I did was check for local syncing abilities on the various platforms: no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access — a far cry from a syncing solution such as Dropbox or AeroFS.
I had the 50GB free account from an Android promo awhile back and I couldn't find a way to use it. It definitely wasn't going to replace Dropbox. Since it was sitting around doing nothing, I recently started doing monthly WebDAV + rsync backups of local files.
I'm still evaluating but it's easy enough for me to run and I'm using the space now.
Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Dropbox also has that feature
Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#85Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#86Why do I have to provide my phone number to sign up?
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