Author Topic: Drop Box lands (Read 43128 times)

cmpm · « **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

MrCrispy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2008, 12:31 AM »

Are you in the beta and do you have any invites?

Zero3K · « **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.

Lashiec · « **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'

justice · « **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.

Zero3K · « **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.

Zero3K · « **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.
-justice (March 13, 2008, 10:02 AM)

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

lanux128 · « **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!

Zero3K · « **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).

tomos · « **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)

kartal · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2008, 02:33 AM »

There is xdrive for online drive. You can also use shup for online storage.

czb · « **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?
Thanks

yotta · « **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

kartal · « **Reply #13 on:** May 08, 2008, 03:59 PM »

You can always use powerfolder

yotta · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2008, 01:58 PM »

kartal · « **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.

yotta · « **Reply #16 on:** June 16, 2008, 03:08 PM »

dropbox has moved to unlimited invites

sri · « **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.

Deozaan · « **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.

sri · « **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!

justice · « **Reply #20 on:** June 24, 2008, 03:39 AM »

So does anyone have an opinion on this yet or areyou under an NDA?

kartal · « **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.

Deozaan · « **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>

sri · « **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.

Armando · « **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...

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