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Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Aldo_MX »

hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

I couldn't find any HTML with legalese in your page.

Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

#32

Post by SyneRyder »

freiheit wrote: post #25

Have they fixed the other problems with this service? We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found: - There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item…

The limitations you're describing (especially 20,000 file limit, collections, lack of a Mac client etc) sound like OneDrive For Business limitations, not OneDrive limitations. Best to think of the two as completely separate unrelated products because they behave so differently. Apparently OneDrive For Business won't get the increase until later 2015.

The OneDrive 2GB filesize limit has apparently been lifted & increased to 10GB per file: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2605912/onedrive-now-allows-f...

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

#33

Post by hemancuso »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #31
hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

I couldn't find any HTML with legalese in your page. Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.

I suppose we should put that up, or at least clarify.

We never capture/store any credentials. Everything stays on your client machine.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

#35

Post by jorgeleo »

Retric wrote: post #24
jorgeleo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem I have with putting my data in online drives is that they have an open copy to my data, which is something I don't like Does expand drive has the ability to: - set the a file password (system level/folder level/file level) - every file uploaded gets encrypted first with the appropriate password - files downloaded get decrypted on arrival ? In this way the space provider does not have access to my unencryp…

This dramaticly increases costs as most cloud storage pricing is based around the assumption that most people upload lot's of duplicate files. Even if it's just you and your grandparents having copy's of the same holiday photos.

I understand... Should I trade my privacy to save pretty pennies in somebody else's wallet?

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by SyneRyder »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #31
hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

I couldn't find any HTML with legalese in your page. Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.

Yep, this would be useful. As allergic as I am to legalese, I know some businesses that could really use Expandrive, but they'd need to know privacy policy on how files are transferred. (When connecting to OneDrive, OneDrive permissions say that Expandrive needs access to files even when Expandrive isn't running, which sounds a bit scary & nonsensical.)

Aside from that, Expandrive looks amazing and like it will solve a great many problems.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

#37

Post by dudus »

minimaxir wrote: post #4
pratyushag wrote: post #2

Finally, somebody being smart enough to give unlimited storage. One of the primary reasons gmail took off was unlimited storage, at a time when people were very space conscious and had to keep deleting emails.

Gmail didn't have unlimited storage at launch; it gave 1GB of storage, which back then felt like unlimited (relative to Yahoo's 50MB limit, anyways). OneDrive had a 1TB limit before this announcement, which isn't as dramatic of a comparison.

But when it was released the marketing message was that the storage on Gmail was "infinity +1" since you get 1GB to start and the storage would grow slowly forever, thus infinity.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by hemancuso »

SyneRyder wrote: post #36
Aldo_MX wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't find any HTML with legalese in your page. Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.

Yep, this would be useful. As allergic as I am to legalese, I know some businesses that could really use Expandrive, but they'd need to know privacy policy on how files are transferred. (When connecting to OneDrive, OneDrive permissions say that Expandrive needs access to files even when Expandrive isn't running, which sounds a bit scary & nonsensical.) Aside from that, Expandrive looks amazing and like it will solve…

Fair.

This is so we can use the API. It makes it sound scarier than it is.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by vidyesh »

ulber wrote: post #28
freiheit wrote: post #25

Have they fixed the other problems with this service? We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found: - There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item…

>Note: "One Drive" and "One Drive for Business" are totally different. The stuff connected to "Office 365" is the business stuff and it's really some friendlier front-ends on some kind of Cloud SharePoint thing... From the link: "We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers." I'm using Office 365 University and it definitely is the normal "One Drive" (just offers more sp…

OneDrive for Business is part of Office 365 which is run on Sharepoint online cloud service by Microsoft.

In this OneDrive has two different services, you can use both as a Office 365 user. What you are using is the personal service for OneDrive which is on the onedrive website, the other is the sharepoint online for teams which is used for collaborating files in different projects, teams etc...

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Aldo_MX »

hemancuso wrote: post #33
Aldo_MX wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't find any HTML with legalese in your page. Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.

I suppose we should put that up, or at least clarify. We never capture/store any credentials. Everything stays on your client machine.

But what about the personal information you require to begin the trial?

Are you going to use it for validation purposes?

Are you going to send introductory emails to the user to help them discover the features of your application?

Sorry to be the devil's advocate, but you need to explain clearly in the privacy policy why are you asking for personal information, and how are you planning to use it.

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