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Last post Author Topic: Drop Box lands  (Read 40496 times)

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Drop Box lands
« on: March 12, 2008, 10:11 PM »
http://www.getdropbox.com/

Very interesting features and supposed ease of use.

I haven't tried it yet.
But I just might since it looks easy.

(still no GDrive as far as I know)

Related news and how I found it.

http://www.pcpro.co....-online-storage.html

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2008, 12:31 AM »
Are you in the beta and do you have any invites? :)

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 12:46 AM »
You can get an invite by posting a comment at http://dailyapps.net...rive-killer-dropbox/ stating that you would like to have one.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2008, 09:58 AM »
Looks interesting. I always wanted a backup service that lets me upload files directly from any file manager, with no browser involved. That said, I think I'll wait 'til it gets a bit more 'real' :)

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2008, 10:02 AM »
what's the pricing on this one? If it's good it's usually not free especially not when data's involved.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2008, 10:03 AM »
Since I was invited into the beta, I can invite anyone that wants to join. Simply PM me asking to join in it (along with your e-mail address) and I'll send you an invite.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2008, 10:05 AM »
what's the pricing on this one? If it's good it's usually not free especially not when data's involved.

Its free for now since its in beta. But when the beta is over, there will be free and premium services available.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2008, 08:55 PM »
sounds interesting but i'll hold out for a while and wait for the dust to settle..  ;) anyway, here's an additional source for invites: Dropbox Invites!

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2008, 10:04 PM »
That site has already "run out of invites". It seems that there's no way to invite more than 4 people to one shared folder according to the site. I'm willing to see if that statement is wrong.

EDIT: That statement is wrong. You can only invite 4 at a time. But the total number of possible invites to a shared folder is unlimited (at the moment).
« Last Edit: March 14, 2008, 06:37 PM by Zero3K »

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2008, 04:36 PM »
according to link in cmpm's post it's using Amazon S3 so presumably you will eventually have to pay them and pay DropBox too... (or pay a fee that covers both)
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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2008, 02:33 AM »
There is xdrive for online drive. You can also use shup for online storage.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2008, 07:33 AM »
What I realy like about this site is that it can be used directly from explorer, it has realtime synchronization and versioning. Now I use DriveHQ but I can not use real time sync + versioning togehter (at least I have not found a way how to do this).
Does anybody has an invitation so that I can test this site pls?
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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2008, 03:49 PM »
this looks great, and could be so useful for group tasks/projects, simply create a joint folder toghether!

i havnt actually tried it, lacking an invite, but it looks GREAT

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2008, 03:59 PM »
You can always use powerfolder

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2008, 01:58 PM »
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« Last Edit: June 16, 2008, 03:08 PM by yotta »

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2008, 02:04 PM »
not so quick? What do you mean?

Powerfolder offers different syncing profiles and online storage. But they have moved to paid subscription. I started using it while it was open source and it has been helpful to me. But I think their pricing is very high with today`s standards.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2008, 03:08 PM »
dropbox has moved to unlimited invites :)

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2008, 12:14 AM »
Send me a PM w/ your e-mail address if anyone wants to be invited to dropbox.
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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #18 on: June 23, 2008, 02:03 PM »
So I don't see anywhere that says the beta filesize limitation or storage space limitations.

EDIT: I just noticed if you right-click the tray icon it tells you how much of your storage limitation you're using up.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2008, 02:06 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2008, 02:22 PM »
Total space limit while in beta phase is 2GB. It may remain so for the beta testers. At worst, it will be reduced to 1GB, but I doubt that going by the 'generosity' of the devs in their forum.

Dropbox is simple and works great even from behind my office proxy. Like it!  :-*
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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2008, 03:39 AM »
So does anyone have an opinion on this yet or areyou under an NDA? :D

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2008, 09:56 AM »
Sri sent me an invitation so I gave it a try

- It looks like you cannot share any other folder than "my documents" which is useless to me. I personally never use "my documents".
- Beta is limited to 5g, again it is useless to me. So I could not actually try it with real project files and folders.
- Other than issues above it seems to work.

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2008, 01:59 PM »
Kartal, are you sure you're talking about Drop Box?

As far as I can tell the beta is limited to 2GB. And I can create and share any directory I want, but it's all stored in My Documents\My Dropbox\<subfolders>

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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #23 on: June 24, 2008, 02:07 PM »
The ability to add any folder (not necessarily inside your 'My Documents') to dropbox is one of their upcoming features.
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Re: Drop Box lands
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2008, 10:21 AM »
The article at Lifehack Dropbox: A Simple Syncing Solution triggered my curiosity about dropbox again... And I ended up here. Anybody still using and enjoying it?

The interface looks nice and quite convenient. (Of course, in my case, I don't think I could really use such a tool -- my ISP upload/download limit is a bit too small, well maybe not actually, will have to calculate...  :) )