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BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by luser001 »

wingspan wrote: post #208
Terretta wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. Why is this a problem with Flickr? I am generally shooting high res full frame, and post to Flickr. I have about a terabyte of images. There's no 100GB storage limit, just an annual flat fee. Family can download full resolution images for printing. My grandmother can have my Flickr Photo Stream as a screen…

> I also enjoy fantastic two way integration with photo management tools, with tagging syncing back. Which photo management tools do you use? I currently have around 45k photos (~200GB) and Picasa is sometimes just too slow. I am planning to get a DSLR soon, so total size is going to be expanding rapidly. What kind of tools would you suggest? I am on Windows mainly, so Mac-only is not an option. Thanks!

Try Adobe Lightroom [yes, our favorite whipping boy Adobe :)]. It's really really awesome as a photo management tool. IMHO. If you find it slow, try throwing in an SSD. Don't run it with less than 8 GB RAM.

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Post by tlrobinson »

Ok, now make it totally decentralized and peer-to-peer, with a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin used to automatically pay peers that replicate your data on an ongoing basis.

There are lots of hard problems to be solved in such a system (mostly dealing with the lack of trust), but I think it would be totally badass.

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Post by uses »

mikestew wrote: post #158
uses wrote: post #24

I've been using BitTorrent Sync for the past week. For the use case of sharing large files, it obliterates Dropbox, AeroFS, and Cubby. It distributes the files intelligently and makes optimal use of everyone's bandwidth. Dropbox, for example, slowly uploads all files to the cloud before distributing them, plus there's the space issue. AeroFS allows unlimited space, but is far slower than my Internet and LAN speeds al…

If you already have a Synology box, what do you get with BS versus using Synology's own CloudStation? I've looked into BS, but I guess I'm not getting what I gain running it on my DS410.

I've never used CloudStation, but with respect to BitTorrent Sync, the DiskStation would be just another device that syncs the files. So the main benefit is that it acts as another backup / seeder for your private p2p network.

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Post by malbs »

jmillikin wrote: post #80
manishsharan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would respectfully disagree with what you seem to be implying. This service would mostly be used by us who are wary about trusting Google/Microsoft/Dropbox and the judgement of their automated decision systems with our life . Yesterday there was a HN story about a guy who got kicked off Google Docs because an automated program was trolling/mining through their users files and its judgement was not to be questioned…

> Yesterday there was a HN story about a guy who got > kicked off Google Docs because an automated program was > trolling/mining through their users files and its > judgement was not to be questioned by mere mortals. Wasn't that the user who was using a Docs form/spreadsheet to collect passwords from his customers? Google has stated that such forms are reviewed manually after being reported (for example, http://produ…

Actually I was using a google docs spreadsheet to store usernames/passwords for various forums I had registered on. I didn't want to use any of the various password storage systems, the usernames/passwords weren't something I really cared if someone got a hold of them..

I created the file.. added a few forum links with user/pass combos.. and within about 48 hours, the file was nuked and I had an email from google stating a document I had put on google docs broke their terms of service.

I went through the terms of service and couldn't find anything regarding passwords, but it did say that anything I put in google docs was owned by google and publishable by google, so I guessed that was the reason (they can't publish passwords?)

edit: I didn't get kicked off of google docs altogether though, just the one file got nuked

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Post by overgard »

I'm sort of amused at all the dropbox comparisons. This solves a totally different problem which dropbox was HORRIBLE at, which is sharing music/movie collections across my machines at home. I'll still probably use dropbox for documents and stuff, but frankly I never wanted to put my music and tv shows into dropbox because it would have taken up most of my space very quickly for the dubious "feature" of uploading all my pirated stuff to a centralized location. Yay. No way.

Sidenote, but, if Dropbox people happen to be reading this, maybe this will be a hint: PLEASE ADD MULTIFOLDER SUPPORT. (As in, multiple roots). I know you're trying to go for a simple aesthetic etc. etc., so you only have "one" dropbox, but BTSync makes doing that trivially easy. You have no excuse.

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Post by Down_n_Out »

I think this is very promising, as a business owner I have a desktop in the office and a laptop for the road, it makes for a secure way to sync the "customer-folders" between both PC's and saves me from getting my laptop out because there's a file on there that isn't yet on the desktop ... While Dropbox is a good tool, I'd be more at ease the files are transfered securely/encrypted... And not resting on some cloud server, call it paranoid or whatever you want... Yes, I could use Truecrypt or whatever, but this has the "approachability" factor in its favor ... And no I'm not saying Truecrypt is difficult, I'm speaking more in general... I will probably test this out.

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Post by zwily »

uses wrote: post #153
evanw wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does it handle scenarios where files were modified offline on two separate devices? Is it able to identify conflicts?

Look under "What if several people make changes to the same file?" http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/16410-bittorrent-sync-faq/

TL;DR - Last writer wins.

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Post by buro9 »

afterburner wrote: post #150
buro9 wrote: post #9

Really nice, but the thing is... Dropbox has gone beyond just file sharing. One example: I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. I moved from Flickr to Picasa as it could cope with the directories full of photos and I didn't have to manually upload them and Google's storage space was cheaper. Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where…

224 photos? I need a solution for on the order of 40,000... for which Flickr is perfect, since there is no storage limit, just a very small flat fee.

Nope, that's just one directory. I was just illustrating the one photo sharing piece... which is as simple as drag a folder into Dropbox, and go to the web interface and click share.

I have approx' 40k photos (not including the .raw files) over about 180GB (including the .raw files).

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