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HAL2007 Top notch software. Has become indispensable for me. Recommended to everyone who is serious about sharing and syncing. Absolutely reliable.
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| Dec 15 2009 |
HAL's capabilities, like all the technology in 2001, were based on the speculation of respected scientists. Marvin Minsky, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and one of the most influential researchers in the field, was an adviser on the film set. In the mid-1960s, computer scientists were generally optimistic that machines with HAL's capabilities would exist within a few decades. For example, AI pioneer Herbert Simon had predicted in 1965 that "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do". However, as 2001 approached, it became clear that the film's depiction of computer technology was too optimistic. Capabilities such as natural language processing, lip reading, and commonsense reasoning on the part of computers were still science fiction." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 So is "Absolutely reliable" notion, still science fiction in the computing area.
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| Dec 15 2009 |
HAL2007 "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." :-)
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| Dec 15 2009 |
ISCREEN *lol*
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| Dec 15 2009 |
One more thing, nevertheless... The things as they are. Putting aside the privacy implications how to know if it's reliable or not? In short, how to know if you have to trust it or not? For most of the softwares that I am using responsiveness from the developers is a kind of basic test to know if they merit my confidence and my money. I have emailed the Dropbox Team three times about a silly referral problem without any answer. Same silence with a post on their forum. Maybe Dropbox guys reserve their answers for their paying customers. Well, just my experience.
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 | Dec 14 2009 |
FIZIK Very nice, useful and reliable. Use both on Macs and PC's.
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| Dec 14 2009 |
WZRDJR Continues to click the living crap out of Apple's iDisk.
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| Nov 6 2009 |
BORLOX It looks like some people don't understand the privacy implications of this and other cloud-data services. When you use Dropbox, you're handing your personal data over to the developer. What happens to it after that is not under your control. You may or may not care about this lack of privacy, but don't be misled into thinking it doesn't exist. The documentation cited below says that data is encrypted in transmission (using SSL) and in storage on the servers. "Online access to your files requires your username and password." But the Dropbox admins *know* your username and password. They may have a policy of not allowing their employees to access customer data, but it's just a policy; you're relying on them to enforce it. In some circumstances, such as under subpoena or after a sale or liquidation of the company, the policy may be unenforceable. In no way is it the same as if the client application were to encrypt the data locally before uploading, using a key known only to you. Then they *could not* read your data even if they wanted to.
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| Nov 20 2009 |
MAC007 That's why it's good there are developers who make encryption tools like PGP. It's a brave new world and those who aren't prepared will be hurt and those who are stand the best chance of avoiding harm. Either way it's coming and there's no stopping it.
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| Dec 16 2009 |
PERLMONKEY The privacy issues were my main concern and the reason I switched to TeamDrive.
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| Oct 13 2009 |
FRODO_LIFE biggest draw back is that you can not schedule when it backs up to take advantage of you off peak time. This really needs to be implemented, otherwise great product
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| Oct 12 2009 |
MACMEND.COM I think its only problem is the lack of easy built in encryption, so when I send my data to the dropbox server who can read it? Other than that it works seamlessley, smoothly and I have never had a problem with it. These days that is saying something.
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| Oct 13 2009 |
ROY VAN DER WONING Did you check the DropBox documentation before you posted this? https://www.getdropbox.com/help/27
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| Oct 16 2009 |
MACMEND.COM fair enough I take it all back, my worries are alleviated...well enough anyhow, but the web has plenty of stories on the cypher crisis over AES. However as Roberto Assagiolli , the founder of psychosynthesis, said: "Security is an illusion"
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| Oct 11 2009 |
RASPUTINSREVENGE I was backing up with Mozy before, but had too many problems. Now I'm backing up nearly my entire User Folder (including the Library folder) with Symlinks (look for "Dropbox and Symlinks" on Google) and it works without the slightest problem! This software beats them all! Thanks!
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| Oct 11 2009 |
CULLENSTEV Hard to imagine using a computer without it.
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| Oct 6 2009 |
SHAVED_APE Does what it should as easy and simple as possible. Great program that also comes as a free iPhone app!
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| Oct 1 2009 |
JUSTANTHRGUYHERE I've been using DropBox for about three months now. I have two Mac OS machines and an office Windows machine. It's worked very very well for me keeping my current work folder synchronized. Now with the iPhone version I have access to my primary files anywhere and everywhere. Sure there may be some concerns with the fact the stuff is stored somewhere else but the reality is so are all those emails you sent yourself all these years. I suggest you so as I did and create an encrypted sparse disk image (I use 50MB) and place your confidential stuff in there. Sure it takes longer to copy the entire image rather than the individual files but other than work stuff if someone wants my latest car show photos have at um! :-)
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| Oct 1 2009 |
SLARKIN Has anyone used Carbonite? I don't see it listed anywhere on MacUpdate.
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| Oct 1 2009 |
SJK This relatively recent comparison article mentions Carbonite: www.macworld.com/article/142606/2009/09/online_backup.html Read the comments for why Dropbox wasn't included.
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| Oct 1 2009 |
PERLMONKEY I am not a fan of solutions that store my data anywhere outside my control, which is what Dropbox seems to do. There is an alternative called TeamDrive that can use any WebDAV space, does encrypting on a client level, offers clients for OS X, Win and Linux and - best of all - is free. Maybe if Dropbox doesn't suit you this is something you want to take a look at.
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SJK Really what's "best of all" about TeamDrive is that it's free? Surely other criteria can be considered more important than price when evaluating this type of product/service.
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| Oct 1 2009 |
PERLMONKEY SJK: Let's face it, most people on Macupdate look for free stuff. So yes, the best feature for people trying out something is the fact, that you get full functionality for free. Once you test TeamDrive you will most likely end up claiming security, versioning or WebDAV is the best feature. I assume Dropbox woulnd't be where it is now if it wasn't free.
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| Oct 1 2009 |
> most people on Macupdate look for free stuff Perhaps. It's just that claiming "best of all it's free" may encourage people to think they're *entitled* to free stuff and get whiny if it's not, which I'll guess isn't your intention. :) Anyhoo, thanks for mentioning TeamDrive.
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| Sep 26 2009 |
22DUKE Tried this a couple of times with free version but never found it particularly useful however as I work from different machines and have problems keeping my files synced I signed up for the 50MB account and gave it another decent trial and have to say I'm quite impressed now I have all my files synchronized on all machines (it took several days though initially so you need to be patient).
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| Sep 23 2009 |
SHERIS So how do you get the "free" 2GB account? I only see options for the "Pro" version
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MISHA https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExNzEwODk
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| Oct 1 2009 |
VEGGIEDUDE Misha is wrong - the URL they posted is for current users of the FREE account who want additional free space by referring friends. http://www.getdropbox.com/pricing DropBox is free for 2GB. I believe the first time you install the app, it will guide you to sign up, or if you already have, you simply put in your account info.
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| Oct 1 2009 |
MISHA How am I "wrong"? If you visit the link I posted it takes you through the quick sign up for a free account, which is what the original poster was asking for...
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| Sep 14 2009 |
PAULE1S I use DropBox for transferring large (compressed) VM images. My reivew is at http://sharevm.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/compressed-vm-file-transfer-using-dropbox/ For the use case of transferring files point to point, I love the simplicity and ease of use. A lot of thought has gone into making the product easy to install, the integration with the host OS (Windows and Mac) is seamless and sets a benchmark for how UIs for downloadable products should be designed. In the future I would like to se support for subfolders within the DropBox folder so that i can organize its contents.
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| Sep 14 2009 |
RUBISCO Ah? I think now it already has full support for subfolders...
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| Sep 13 2009 |
JAMESKITTY Not *quite* "Full Snow Leopard Support". Still no contextual menu support (no right-click, copy URL).
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| Sep 13 2009 |
JSIPPRELL What are you talking about? Both finder badges and the context menu work perfectly now under SL.
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| Sep 14 2009 |
TATARIMOKE It's just because every link on the official site points to version 557 not 559
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| Sep 20 2009 |
JAMESKITTY TRUE! I had downloaded the "update" from the dropbox website and was given .557 (still pushes .557, btw). The link here gives me .559, which DOES have contextual menu support. NOW, if it were only 64-Bit...
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| Sep 13 2009 |
PANCRAZ Free? The website says "Free 14 day trial"...mmmhh
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NADAMAC the website says: try dropbox PRO - free 14 day trial...
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| Sep 13 2009 |
VEGGIEDUDE Yes, it is free for 2GB. If you want more space, then pay for the upgrade.
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| Sep 3 2009 |
SOLOSAINT in Snow Leopard i cannot get it to work via the menu bar
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| Aug 30 2009 |
ROCROW I am new to Mac and this is a terrific program.
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| Aug 30 2009 |
L1QUID1CED Amazing application, super simplistic and much like all the other users who have even bothered to review, this is worth it and what's more is that it's free! absolutely amazing...
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| Aug 25 2009 |
PETERT I have used Dropbox for about 9 months now to distribute templates I develop along sample code files to fellow users across a number of planetary locations. It is the 'Best of Breed' for this purpose, simple, intuitive, set and forget and my highest accolade for software, 'elegant'. | |
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| Aug 25 2009 |
DIGITALFRAMEGUY I'm just searching about feedbacks and reviews and I thought this would be a great software to use.
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| Aug 25 2009 |
MARKUS WINTER This is so good Apple should buy it. Seriously. Sending 300 pictures to my father in Germany? No problem anymore. Keeping important documents synced between my desktop and laptop - automatic. Sharing my recording of last nights football (the real kind as being played in Europe) highlights with my father -in-law in New Zealand - easy! DropBox is amazing, and I've installed it on every relative's and friend's computer I could get my hands on. Really, Apple: Buy it!
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| Aug 30 2009 |
ICONZ113 apple has a syncing service already, mobileme
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PENSKETCH And MobileMe is free too! Oh. Wait. No it isn't. It's $100 a year. Apple, please don't buy this.
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| Sep 6 2009 |
STEVEROB Add to that that the Mobile Me iDisk upload speeds are appalling in the UK!
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| Jul 28 2009 |
RIDOGI I use this to sync my 1Password keychain across computers and it works flawlessly. Couldn't be easier to use and is stable.
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| Jul 13 2009 |
PARTHIBAN M Seriously, these 5 stars are 100% deserved. This is without a doubt one of those MUST have apps for any Mac user (or Windows user). It's reliability thus far has been nothing less than superb on my MacBook Pro, and its so easy to use, like almost too easy. You just install, direct it to a folder, and forget about it, thats it! Dropbox handles the syncing of that folder online so incredibly smoothly that if you're backing up, and your internet gets cut, or something happens to the connection, don't worry, it will automatically resume when the connection is sorted out. It is THE most simplest, yet at the same time the most powerful backup software out there thus far. Everyone should at-least have the free service, which you get 2GB for even if you don't want to dish out $100 for the 50GB or $200 for the 100GB packages. The online interface that you can use to check out the sync is extremely intuitive and thoughtfully laid out. It clearly tells you things that you have updated, added, deleted, etc and the design is so minimalist, yet dare I say very 'web 2.0' that its a joy to use. I swear if Apple had this kind of service with MobileMe iDisk syncing....their service would be golden. But, compared with Dropbox, literally every other syncing service out there is garbage in comparison, including iDisk syncing. Seriously, it takes iDisk 1 hour and 35 mins to upload about 4.32GB worth of files (my iTunes music folder). Dropbox can do that in under 25 minutes. Something is wrong here with Apple's service clearly since both of them use the same internet bandwidth. The cool thing here is that you can access your files from anywhere in the world if you have internet access and the right app on the local computer to open those files (ex. word for doc, excel for spreadsheets, or even opensource alternatives). This makes it incredibly powerful since you can handpick which file you want to check out from your cloud backup. All in all, highly recommended this. I think everyone with a computer should have at-least the free version with 2GB of online space. Backup these days are crucial, and an app like this makes it so ridiculously easy for anyone to backup their files automatically online, making it a true gem.
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| Jun 5 2009 |
ANONYMOUS I love dropbox, this is a really good backup system, it saved me during an HD failure, and is great for syncing, which i have done with great results. Its also great for accessing files anywhere. I love it.
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| Apr 17 2009 |
KOMTOM This service is just wonderful, You install it and it works!!
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| Apr 16 2009 |
THIRSTYROBOT Having used DropBox for well over a month, I now can't imagine doing without it! The key thing I like about it is that it stays out of my way and requires little or no effort to sync and manage files. Development and support are both stellar and there's clearly a dedication here to constantly improve and refine the product. I really think these guys have a bright future ahead. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do about their pricing structure so that there are a few more options to choose from. A well-earned five star rating.
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| Apr 10 2009 |
BABYFETT Just plain awesome. I recently got an old iBook to do some work around the house as opposed to always being chained to my iMac downstairs and I love how seamlessly it works. I love starting a document downstairs and coming upstairs to finish it without having to think about emailing it to myself. I also find it perfect for new 1Password logins that I have one one machine and need to import into another. I just export them right into my dropbox. My only complaint is that I would love to have the option to have files copy into the dropbox as opposed to move into it. I know I can easily option drag it in, but I would like to not even have to think about it and just have that be my default in the preferences.
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| Mar 19 2009 |
HOBOJOE The following is taken from Dropbox's policies page: Dropbox reserves the right to revoke your access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and Services at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice. Dropbox also reserves the right to cease providing or to change the Site, Content, Files or Services at any time and without notice. Is this not disturbing for a service that purports to back up and keep your data? They can stop me from using their service at any time, WITH or WITHOUT cause or notice? I'm sorry, but I need to be able to trust that my invaluable data is safe and that I can access it at any time, not subject to the whims of some company's policies. I realize this may just be "standard" legal crap, but by contrast, SpiderOak does not have the same language in their policy. (Yes, I'm a paying customer of SpiderOak, and despite their high cost and mediocre client software, I feel secure that my data is safe.) Dropbox needs to change this ridiculous policy.
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| Mar 27 2009 |
HMURCHISON I really don't get the issue with some of you. If you have an issue with the legalese of Dropbox and wish to hop on a soapbox and voice your opinion that's fine but it does not suffice for a review of the actual product. This is why Macupdate has a pull down menu that contains "comment" amongst the many choices. While your frustration may be palpable it's generally more constructive to comment rather than levy out some sort of punitive star rating as punishment for a rather subjective grievance.
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| Apr 9 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Use Cryptography!
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| Apr 9 2009 |
DOOBIEXX HMURCHISON he is reviewing the product. When someone makes a review they do not just look at one aspect like UI for instance and judge the app on that, I personally want a review of every aspect of an application, i.e. Customer service, price, easy of use, etc. This was a review of the company, their legal agreement... are all important and this is a review of the company. I am glad that was posted, I for one am now going to download the app as I feel the same way. If he would have gone somewhere to "rant" I would be none the wiser to read through all the legalities of every single thing I put on my computer. It is a review, a review of the Company, UI and a couple other items when he references spideroak having a worse ui but better agreement that your data is safe. I do see where you are coming from, but lets have macupdate mods take care of those issues, if it was an issue.
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| Apr 10 2009 |
JERRY KINDALL Dropbox is not a backup service. If you want to use it for backups, there is a very simple workaround for the issue you raise: don't! If you actually take a moment to look at the Dropbox site, nowhere does it mention backups. Instead it talks about synchronization and sharing. And lo, verily, the purpose of Dropbox is to synchronize files among multiple machines -- including one owned by the Dropbox operators, i.e., a Web site, from which they can (optionally) be accessed by others. The verbiage you object is obviously intended to address abuse of the service (for example, using their Web servers to share a pirated movie with a few thousand of your closest friends). Your "invaluable data" would of course still be safely stored on the various computers that had been synchronized to your Dropbox account before you did whatever it was that caused them to kick you off. Also, of course, they reserve the right to go out of business at any time, like any good Web 2.0 startup, so your access might go away even if you didn't do anything to raise their ire. I'm not sure what they could do about that -- promise that they'll never die? Obviously, the same thing could happen to Spiderpig or whatever. You still need actual backups, backups that you control. A "cloud" backup is not a backup, it's just called one.
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| Apr 10 2009 |
Pretty funny crack with "Spiderpig." Being a Simpsons fan, that made me laugh :) Go to Dropbox's site, and click on "Install" at the bottom of the home page. What features does Dropbox tout? I'll give you a hint. The second one is "Backup," right there between "Synchronization" and "Sharing." Hope you can find it! And then there's the matter of Dropbox Pro (vs. Dropbox Basic... both are Dropbox, so please don't try to argue that they're different services). For $10 a month, they'll even sell you 50 GB of storage. Look, if they said, "We'll terminate your contract if we find you're abusing our bandwidth," hopefully after a warning or something, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But "without cause" and "without warning"? That's not right. Special thanks to DoobieXX for the hearty defense ;)
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| Apr 10 2009 |
JERRY KINDALL I installed it quite a long time ago, and haven't been to the install page recently, so I guess you're technically correct -- the best kind of correct! It does look like they now have some backup-ish features, such as the ability to restore deleted files and to retrieve previous versions. I am pretty sure they didn't have these features when I first started using it, and it never occurred to me to look for them. Mea culpa. I suppose it could make sense to use Dropbox as a third-tier backup service, supplementing your own local and off-site backups, but there are far better choices for that. Some of those services offer unlimited storage, too -- not that you'd want to restore your entire system from the Internet (it would take me nearly a week, and I have a 20 Mbps service), but it certainly beats Dropbox's maximum of 50 GB. Really, the main feature Dropbox offers is synchronization, and it excels at that. I often use it to share files I'm working on between my desktop and my laptop. (I also have all my desktop wallpaper in it, and a bunch of e-books.) But if I was suddenly unable to access the service, I wouldn't lose anything, because there are no files that are stored just "in the cloud." All my Dropbox files are stored on three computers I use on a regular basis anyway.
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| May 7 2009 |
SHOTGUNWEDDINGS Personally the point raised is very valid. I sure as hell wouldn't be too happy to find my account and data were terminated without any interaction after I just emailed my clients to review the drafts I uploaded for them to consider. Thanks but no thanks DropBox
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| Jul 28 2009 |
XENOPHILE So what did you expect? A free service that backs up your data off-site, guarantees it's security, and promises to keep its servers on line forever? They've got to have the legalese you complain about because if they didn't and had a server fail or went out of business or whatever, someone like you would try to sue them for losing the sole backup of your Important Data.
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| Mar 14 2009 |
Please implement an auto-updater (e.g. Sparkle).
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| Feb 18 2009 |
CYBERBRENT Every once in awhile a program so simple to use and so useful comes to the Mac. While others talk about how this can do that and that program can do this (trust me I tried them all - Beta user for some as well)....in the end DROPBOX is dead simple, works flawlessly, and gets out of the way! Love it.
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| Feb 17 2009 |
SESQUIPEDALIAN Does Dropbox support resource forks, extended attributes, etc. yet?
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PROPOSAL I donot see any information about security problem. I want to know more about how it works.
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ROY VAN DER WONING Took me all of 5 seconds to find this: https://www.getdropbox.com/help/27
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| Jan 15 2009 |
APPLEHC I love this product. It keeps all my office data synced between my laptop and my desktop computer. And I got a full backup "in the cload" as well. Great! Using it with Windows XP and with Mac OS X 10.5.6. Make sure you use the new beta version, transfer rate is much faster here in Europe.
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| Jan 11 2009 |
SAMADORE Hype is an amazing thing and if you can get the media onboard a true feeding frenzy can result. Now don't get me wrong. Dropbox is fine and yes the 1st 2GB are free, but SugarSync offers a MUCH broader suite of features while including DropBox's syncing of one folder in it's Magic Briefcase feature. With SugarSync you don't have to download a file, edit it locally, and then re-upload it manually to your personal website. SugarSync lets you work with your files cross platform on remote computers as if you were on your own desktop. Also keeps last 5 versions of the files you've chosen to sync (which don't all have to put in a special folder 1st, but just selected for syncing from where they reside). Synchronization speed is very quick. There's a very generous 45 day, 10 GB free trial and then plans start at 10GB for only $2.49/month - well worth it for this mature and evolving feature set in my view. Their support is prompt and very helpful including follow up phone calls if necessary! Just so this isn't a complete rave, the SugarSync Manager window doesn't remember resizing its panes between start ups of SugarSync. | |
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| Jan 15 2009 |
APPLEHC Come on, you must be working for the SugarSync guys :( DropBox has all the fesatures you are mentioning! I am a paying customer of DropBox (100GB plan) and everything works great! I generally see only one single advantage at SugarSync right now: A custom iPhone client.
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| Jan 15 2009 |
SAMADORE Actually no, I'm not affiliated with SugarSync except as a customer and I never said Dropbox didn't work.
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| Jan 18 2009 |
FRED ANDERSSEN Yeah, except sugarsync is so slow as to be unusable. Linking one small file can take 45 minutes. Dropbox is done in less than a minute. Not to mention that sugarsync didn't catch all updates on my Mac, making it unusable. Dropbox simply works.
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| Jan 18 2009 |
SAMADORE I haven't experienced anything like the slowness/unreliability on my system/connection that you report encountering on yours (45 minutes!?). Anyway, I didn't post to slam Dropbox or convert those who are happy with it. If your satisfied - great. Just wanted to let those who are still 'shopping' know that there are very good (in my opinion) alternatives available that just haven't achieved the 'meme' status that Dropbox has. | |
| Jan 30 2009 |
PENTIMENTO Yes I think Sugar Sync is great as well, however when I last tried it, it did not yet work correctly with Pages or Rapidweaver packages, which ended the deal for me.
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| Jan 2 2009 |
A.KRZYZAK Good program. Could use integration with other programs like Google Docs.
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| Jan 2 2009 |
PENTIMENTO I love Dropbox! I tested Dropbox and SugarSync and Dropbox won for me, though SugarSunc has some great features. Dropbox has made my life so much easier as I no longer have to sync the files I need for work between my desktop and my laptop constantly. I am a frequent user of RapidWeaver and Pages - both use packages that could not be read correctly by SugarSync at my last test. Dropbox works really well for me. That said, some of my really large files take a while to appear on the other computer, but they are constantly upgrading the program and it sounds like this may have been addressed in the latest beta. I'll be happy when I can get an account for more than 50GB. According to the website, they will be implementing a new pricing plan soon, which hopefully will have something between the 2 GB free account and the 50 GB 9.99/mo - 99/yr plan and something for those of us who want even more!
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SAMADORE @Pentimento, SugarSync offers a 250GB plan. I'm not sure if this addresses your issues with reading of some packages by SugarSync, but SugarSync sees Mac OS X bundles as single files instead of as folders. In order to force services like SugarSync to see it as the folder it technically is, all you have to do is rename it filename.filetype_folder.
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| Jan 30 2009 |
APPLEHC got myself two 100GB accounts. just ask at dropbox sales.
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| Jan 30 2009 |
PENTIMENTO Yes, I got my 100gb from sales as well and am thrilled!
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| Apr 15 2009 |
GEOPICK Yes, but compared to other similar services the cost per gig is rather high.
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| Dec 19 2008 |
MACINTOSH SAUCE This application is simply incredible IMHO! I have it running perfectly on my Mac Pro and new aluminum MacBook. The changes are instantaneous! Impressive! I made a suggestion that they should have a $4.99 plan for 20 or 25 GB of storage. 50 GB might be much for some people. Dropbox is better than having a stupid USB key or using file transfer to copy files from one computer to the other. Sweet!
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| Dec 19 2008 |
SVRROOT i tried dropbox serveral weeks, now i ended up with http://wua.la - it gives me the possibility to share space and earn up to 100GB for free. also the pricing is much more better (i also bought 10GB for 10US$/year) wua.la does not provide offline access, but i have wlan in my office and HSDPA out of office so it fits better to my needs... svrroot
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| Sep 28 2008 |
ROUSTEM KARIMOV Dropbox is amazing. It is very fast and I was using it for over a month without a single issue. Shared folders is a very useful feature that can be used to share files with people you selected. The free account is generous and gives 2GB of space but I purchased the Pro account just to say thanks to the developers.
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| Sep 27 2008 |
JOELES Apple currently faces some serious competition! Dropbox is very easy to configure and use! In companion with fruux for the syncing stuff you end up with a really nice (and free) MobileMe replacement.
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| Sep 24 2008 |
TEKL Does anyone know a similar solution for a local network? I want one master folder on a server which gets synchronized on all clients. That could be usefull to sync Aperture/Lightroom or just iPhoto libraries.
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| Sep 27 2008 |
TIAGO Take a look at ChronoSync... I use it to synchronize folders from different hard-drives, but I guess it would work as well over a network... Can't test it, though... http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7230/chronosync
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| Sep 17 2008 |
SUCKERPUNCH86 The free version of MobileMe's iDisk allowing instantaneous synchronization of files with the host and cloud. It also integrates well into Finder. Hope this keeps getting better with more improved features and better stability.
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| Sep 28 2008 |
UGGERHOLT What are you talking about? I haven't heard of any free iDisk in mobileMe (except the 3 months trial). Dropbox on the other hand, is remarkably well-functioning, very stable and 100% free I've used beta version for months. My USB-disk hasn't left my pocket since Dropbox was installed.
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| Jan 22 2009 |
MACMEND.COM theres a bit of confusion here, between 2 GB free and the 18Gb I use on my idisk. (2Gb for mac mail) The question also arises who is backing this up, who are dropbox?
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| Sep 13 2008 |
2GB of space free and an application that indeed should be part of MobileMe. Works as advertised. It's quick and stable and has no problem working on Intel/PPC, Tiger or Leopard. I recommend it highly. Well done and thanks for offering it free!
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| Sep 12 2008 |
MIDWSTGUY69 The perfect app!!! Does exactly what I WISH Apple iDisk would do!!! I can't believe it's free. I would easily pay for this one!! Great job!
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| Sep 12 2008 |
METROPILOT So far no complaints. I even sended out almost all my invites. Great little thing to have. Even if I have a webpresence with some GB space, this thing comes in handy when I´m low on space there and need to send someone something. Also I´m planning to backup some essential stuff what I need while working freelance. If you have no own online space it´s even more valuable. Hope this will stay on the right track, if yes, it will be a great success. gj.
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| Sep 11 2008 |
MISHA I'm amazed iDisk/MobileMe can't do this. I'm even more amazed that this free. Nice!
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| Sep 11 2008 |
BLODWYN Dropbox is a great application. Once set up it just sits there and automatically keeps your dropbox folder synchronized between all the systems you have connected to your dropbox account. Dropbox works equally well with Mac, Windows, and Linux systems, or any mix of the three. Just launched to the public, dropbox has been in a closed beta for quite a while, and has been stable and remarkably trouble-free. The actual data which is copied to their server is held on Amazon S3, so it's pretty secure and well backed-up. The only ding I give it, is that (currently) the only options seem to be a limited size free account or a 50GB account for $9.99 per month, with nothing in between. A couple more options would be nice. Overall though, I've been really impressed with it
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