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Dropbox is good because is ridiculously simple. I've been using Windows 8 + Skydrive full time and well, it's not a sunshine.
It's buggy, and just upload files (not folders) and I don't believe it will get so much better after the official launch.
And yes, Dropbox is probably screwed. I've been using SugarSync just because it gives me more free space.
If google drive is just as good as dropbox, well, you know the drill.
Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?
Cubby - LogMeIn product .. 5Gb Free Cloud
+ "Unlimited peer-to-peer (P2P) syncing means no storage limits when you're syncing between your own computers. Storage limits only apply to cubbies that are synced to the cloud."
Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?
https://www.cubby.com Cubby - LogMeIn product .. 5Gb Free Cloud + "Unlimited peer-to-peer (P2P) syncing means no storage limits when you're syncing between your own computers. Storage limits only apply to cubbies that are synced to the cloud." https://www.cubby.com/faq
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on...
Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?
The sad thing about Dropbox is that my free Dropbox account has less space than my free gmail account. If I found a service which was as reliable and provided at least 7 gigs of free space, I would jump ship w/o thinking twice.
Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?
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Not really - my point is that SkyDrive adds nothing to Microsoft's strategy. It won't really sell large numbers of Office, and the fact that less than 1% of people use more than 7gb (the free tier) means that it will make very little money overall. Office will certainly sell subscriptions of SkyDrive, but they'll be free subscriptions mostly and the people won't really care about it. It doesn't make the core product…
> "Dropbox integration would be a fantastic selling point for Office; SkyDrive integration is not" I think you may be discounting businesses that actually purchase a lot of Office licences. SkyDrive can be a way of providing file-syncing and sharing that's 'good-enough' for their employees/company. (edit: by which I mean it's a valid strategy to try and protect your turf). I can see an analogy here with Sharepoint. M…
I'm still dubious, especially due to the market penetration Dropbox has, but I guess we'll see :)
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Keeping a truecrypt container (with built-in hidden container, naturally) synched with dropbox is quite easy.
Does this require unmounting the TC volume for releasing the file system lock on its container and letting for the sync to happen? Or does Dropbox know how to use Shadow Copying now?