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DropBox...the new way to share files
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How is this better than .Mac?
And there's the biggest reason. It also looks quite a bit faster, though that may not hold up.
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You really need to ask that? My point is clear.
This topic is about a web app called Drop Box. No one here is even talking about the drop box folder contained on your mac. It has absolutely nothing to do with the drop box on your mac in your user folder, so why even mention something about that? It is completely off topic and will just confuse other people about how what this app is and how it works.
If you're interested in the dropbox beta you may want to stroll over to the marketplace forum which has a thread for beta invites. Right now it looks as though there are still a bunch of invites available. Just FYI...
I've been using it for about a week now to drop files from my work machine (Vista) to my MacBook at home. It's worked great, having a folder that handles the synching for me for free is brilliant. Not sure how they plan to pay for it, but I'll keep using it as long as it's around.
Agreed. I've been waiting for this kind of option for a long time. So far I really like it. I've been impressed with the speed of saves/updates too. It's great to hit save on a document and have it be update/backed up to the server within a minute.
Another huge potential advantage of dropbox may be Time Machine. iDisk doesn't do time machine backups. I haven't had a chance to test to see whether dropbox does, but if so, I'm going to dump iDisk like a hot potato.
Update: yep, works fine with time machine. Now I just need to see how well it syncs my two computers.
Update: yep, works fine with time machine. Now I just need to see how well it syncs my two computers.
Can you explain more about how you're using dropbox with time machine? As a backup destination or? I haven't thought about this option, but am curious.
this service seems cool so far, but is there any way to prevent dropbox from starting up when you first boot up?
I just have it as one of the folders that time machine backs up. That way I've got my most recent version synced to the internet and my other computer, and I've got incremental backups if I need to find an old version of a document or something I accidentally deleted.
And btw, it does a great job syncing my two computers -- works seamlessly, and much faster than .mac.
Dropbox will give everybody 2GB for free as well as premium subscription in September when it goes out of beta.
The speed is actually tricky. They try to host only one single version of any item. Like if you upload a song but that has already been hosted by someone else, then yours wont be uploaded but you'll have access to the one that is already online. That's why you may think it goes crazy fast when uploading.
Of course, they is a very strict process for all this...
The speed is actually tricky. They try to host only one single version of any item. Like if you upload a song but that has already been hosted by someone else, then yours wont be uploaded but you'll have access to the one that is already online. That's why you may think it goes crazy fast when uploading.
Of course, they is a very strict process for all this...
Gotcha. Yeah I just did the same thing with having time machine back up the dropbox folder.
I agree about the syncing, I've been really impressed with how quickly and easiliy dropbox is working for me among several computers.
