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AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Re: AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Post by rdl »

This is awesome. AeroFS does everything I want in a file sharing system -- I can either run it entirely on my own machines on LAN and potentially VPN, or at a company on a network also not connected to the Internet, or I can use it as a direct Dropbox alternative (although it lacks some mobile clients and API support).

I've been using it for ~a year or two in beta, as well as all the other alternatives. I still use Dropbox for interoperating with other people who use Dropbox, and for a couple mobile devices which don't support anything else, and I use iCloud for mainly Apple app sync (although it seems to suck for most non-Apple apps) between OSX and iOS, but AeroFS is my preferred option for general file sharing use.

The only downside I've found is dealing with Java on certain OSes (OSX and Windows 7 at times), but generally OS-level Java is fine, it's browser Java which sucks.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Post by ineedtosleep »

Been using it for over two months now during private beta and pretty much just gave up last week.

The main reason is because one of my linked computers is a Linux computer. I've tried on both Ubuntu, through the deb package, and Arch, through AUR, and the synching either never happens or happens after a few hours. For the former, restarting the service a few times somehow fixes it, but it's never clear why.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Post by zarvox »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #3

Been using it for over two months now during private beta and pretty much just gave up last week. The main reason is because one of my linked computers is a Linux computer. I've tried on both Ubuntu, through the deb package, and Arch, through AUR, and the synching either never happens or happens after a few hours . For the former, restarting the service a few times somehow fixes it, but it's never clear why.

Hey, this is Drew from AeroFS. Sorry to hear you've been having trouble syncing. If you want to report an issue (AeroFS -> Help -> Report a Problem in the GUI, or aerofs-sh report "Description of your issue" from your terminal of choice), we will be happy to take a look at your issues and see what's going wrong.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Post by opminion »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #3

Been using it for over two months now during private beta and pretty much just gave up last week. The main reason is because one of my linked computers is a Linux computer. I've tried on both Ubuntu, through the deb package, and Arch, through AUR, and the synching either never happens or happens after a few hours . For the former, restarting the service a few times somehow fixes it, but it's never clear why.

Have you reported this to them?

Perhaps it's best not to wait for them to go into public beta in order to report it publicly.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

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Post by gexla »

Wow, finally! And congrats. This would be the only application which would require running Java on my dev server, so that's a point against it when evaluating it against other options. But I don't want to knock a developer reaching for the best tool for the job in getting this thing finally opened up to everyone. Thanks!
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