Box.net is quite good as it offers 5GB of space for free, over Dropbox's 2GB. you can setup Box.net as a webdav share within Finder, however its pretty slow. Dropbox has a faster implementation in OS X and so i use that.
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Box.net is quite good as it offers 5GB of space for free, over Dropbox's 2GB. you can setup Box.net as a webdav share within Finder, however its pretty slow. Dropbox has a faster implementation in OS X and so i use that.
Is there anything better than dropbox for file syncing that i am not aware of?
Oh. and if anyone can help me, it would be very nice if someone would help me bump up my storage space by signing up and install dropbox at this link [removed].
Take a look at SUGARSYNC. The free version has more storage and the sync'ing is more flexible that Dropbox/
I used to be a dropbox fan (actually, I guess I still am), but over the past year I gradually became more reliant on sugarsync. I actually have paid accounts with both dropbox and sugarsync. I was using both, but I ultimately realized that sugarsync was doing everything that dropbox was, but sugarsync made it easier. Eventually I bought a new Macbook air a few months back and didn't even consider installing dropbox on it since I was fully reliant on sugarsync by then.
Pros of dropbox: Like everyone knows, it just works. I never had any significant technical problems with it. It is somewhat of a pain being forced to either keep everything in your dropbox folder, or go through the hassle of creating symlinks as a work around, which did bother me everytime I needed to setup another sync relationship with another computer.
Pros of sugarsync: When I first tried sugarsync a year ago, I did have some technical issues with it being slow. However, an update about 6-8 months ago seems to have resolved all issues that I had, because after that, it has been as fast and stable as dropbox. Absolutely no problems. I find that it offers all the benefits of dropbox, plus some additional features that dropbox doesn't. The biggest for me is that you aren't forced to keep everything in the dropbox folder or create symlinks. You just select the folders you want synced to the cloud, and which folders you want synced between computers, regardless of where they are. At the time I purchased a sugarsync account, they also offered more storage for the money than dropbox. However, I don't know if that is still the case today.
Both are great products, but I found sugarsync to provide me with more bang for my buck, so to speak.
Pros of dropbox: Like everyone knows, it just works. I never had any significant technical problems with it. It is somewhat of a pain being forced to either keep everything in your dropbox folder, or go through the hassle of creating symlinks as a work around, which did bother me everytime I needed to setup another sync relationship with another computer.
Pros of sugarsync: When I first tried sugarsync a year ago, I did have some technical issues with it being slow. However, an update about 6-8 months ago seems to have resolved all issues that I had, because after that, it has been as fast and stable as dropbox. Absolutely no problems. I find that it offers all the benefits of dropbox, plus some additional features that dropbox doesn't. The biggest for me is that you aren't forced to keep everything in the dropbox folder or create symlinks. You just select the folders you want synced to the cloud, and which folders you want synced between computers, regardless of where they are. At the time I purchased a sugarsync account, they also offered more storage for the money than dropbox. However, I don't know if that is still the case today.
Both are great products, but I found sugarsync to provide me with more bang for my buck, so to speak.
Thanks for that, think I'll take another look into sugarsync, even if their prices were abysmal
I tired using it when I first got my Mac but I found it to be too cumbersome. I switched to DropBox and don't regret it one bit.
Have used Dropbox and Sugarsync for a while and the only thing stopping me from moving completely over to the latter is LAN Sync. As far as I'm aware, there are no immediate plans for SugarSync to implements this.
Its a very handy feature where Dropbox synchronized Macs or PCs on the same LAN will transfer files directly over the LAN rather than via their servers. As you can imagine, this can speed up large transfers in many cases.
May be of limited use to the OP depending on their circumstances but worth considering in my view.
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Its a very handy feature where Dropbox synchronized Macs or PCs on the same LAN will transfer files directly over the LAN rather than via their servers. As you can imagine, this can speed up large transfers in many cases.
May be of limited use to the OP depending on their circumstances but worth considering in my view.
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This is good to know I'm contemplating which of the two you mentioned to get. I won't need the LAN feature it is just one desktop in the house and my iPhone. But even if I did why you ned LAN Sync can't you just transfer the info between the two or more computers using the information stored in the cloud? That was the point of the program I thought getting rid of using LAN cables etc.
Thank you and other posters for the info on this thread. I'm in the process of uploading important files to SugarSync. Obviously, I'm in the 30 day trial period, but signed up for the 30GB $4.99 a month or $49.99 annual after than period unless I cancel. I expect working on files (say on my iPad2) and having them updated on my MBA and mini appeals to me. IF the upload ever completes itself.
I like that Dropbox is the "standard" with other apps adding Dropbox sync. Until others are included, it's almost a no-brainer.
I'm paying for 50GB on dropbox.
About the only downside of it is that it's on the expensive side when compared to other cloud based storage solutions.
Good points are:
- It works! Been very reliable for me
- Versioning is nifty
- Sharing well implemented
- Little touches like direct copying on a local network are very good
- It's become the defacto filesystem for a lot of iOS based apps
The last one is a biggie. Because iOS file handling kind of sucks, and Apple has failed (so far) to step in with a cloud based alternative, there are LODS of apps that are using Dropbox for file saving/syncing etc. I'd say that a free account is a must for anyone with an iPad.
About the only downside of it is that it's on the expensive side when compared to other cloud based storage solutions.
Good points are:
- It works! Been very reliable for me
- Versioning is nifty
- Sharing well implemented
- Little touches like direct copying on a local network are very good
- It's become the defacto filesystem for a lot of iOS based apps
The last one is a biggie. Because iOS file handling kind of sucks, and Apple has failed (so far) to step in with a cloud based alternative, there are LODS of apps that are using Dropbox for file saving/syncing etc. I'd say that a free account is a must for anyone with an iPad.
You can transfer via the cloud, but can be much slower if you have a low bandwidth connection or a large volume of files.
This feature is really useful for transferring larger files between PCs without having to setup networking shares and permissions etc.
Not a dealbreaker, but a nice feature to have all the same.