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Sync Laptop & Desktop
tomos:
P.S. And it's also for situations when you want to force the direction of the sync, i.e. when you want to ignore certain changes for certain files or folders on one machine and overwrite them with older versions from the other machine.
-dr_andus (February 02, 2016, 06:30 PM)
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Just to clarify when this might be useful. Image you have the same already synced copy of a database file on the desktop and on a laptop. Then you do a lot of changes on the laptop to that file.
Then you reopen the same database application later on the desktop, to check something without changing anything. However, even that would have modified the file, as lots of database type apps might modify a file when you just open it to look at it.
Some cloud services might pick the desktop version as the latest version and overwrite the laptop version that has the important changes. Allway Sync allows you to review the files and force the sync in the direction in which you want it to happen, not which file was changed last.
-dr_andus (February 03, 2016, 12:16 PM)
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a good argument for also having good local backup on each machine with multiple versions saved -- for that time when you just forget that you opened that database...
tomos:
From another thread:
For what it's worth, Dropbox fits my needs most of the time, but every time I use Mega I become more and more impressed with it. It also has mobile apps (iOS/Android) and desktop clients for Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as browser extensions. And the 50GB of storage is nice, too.
-Deozaan (February 04, 2016, 10:53 PM)
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another option, especially for lots of data. (No idea how or how well the sync works though.)
keithy397:
From another thread:
For what it's worth, Dropbox fits my needs most of the time, but every time I use Mega I become more and more impressed with it. It also has mobile apps (iOS/Android) and desktop clients for Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as browser extensions. And the 50GB of storage is nice, too.
-Deozaan (February 04, 2016, 10:53 PM)
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another option, especially for lots of data. (No idea how or how well the sync works though.)
-tomos (February 05, 2016, 04:03 AM)
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Thanks Tom, I'll take a proper look later but the blurb I read (quickly) sounds good.
Deozaan:
My experience with Mega is limited only to Windows and Android clients. And the browser-based client.
The Android client works a lot like the Dropbox client for Android. It lets you navigate your files and folders and click on files to download them to your device. You can also upload from your device, or just get a link to share a file/folder with someone else. It has more features and options than that, but that covers probably 90+% of what you'd want to do with Mega on Android.
The Windows client runs quietly in the tray, automatically syncing as per your settings. You can set up multiple local directories to sync to your Mega account for a "selective sync" by linking your local directories to certain subdirectories in your Mega account. Or you can just link one local directory to the "root" of your Mega account for a full sync (like how Dropbox works with everything having to be in the Dropbox folder.) The client's UI also shows you recently changed/added files, how much of your 50GB you're using, gives you quick access to your local Mega folder or your account on the Mega website, shows syncing status, etc.
It also has some interesting looking features (which I've never used because I only just found out about them while checking out the client for this writeup) such as "Import Links" which allows you to paste in a Mega link (or several in batch) to add them to your Mega account. "Stream from Mega" allows you to choose a file on your Mega account (or a Mega link from someone else's account) and stream it. I'm assuming this is for videos and possibly audio, but it looks like it allows you to select which application to open the file(s) with so I guess anything that makes sense to do that with will work.
And one major nice thing about Mega over Dropbox is that Mega has end-to-end encryption, so they can't snoop on or leak your files like Dropbox can and has.
In fact, writing this up, I've practically convinced myself to switch over to Mega from Dropbox. Hmm... :-\
keithy397:
My experience with Mega is limited only to Windows and Android clients. And the browser-based client.
The Android client works a lot like the Dropbox client for Android. It lets you navigate your files and folders and click on files to download them to your device. You can also upload from your device, or just get a link to share a file/folder with someone else. It has more features and options than that, but that covers probably 90+% of what you'd want to do with Mega on Android.
The Windows client runs quietly in the tray, automatically syncing as per your settings. You can set up multiple local directories to sync to your Mega account for a "selective sync" by linking your local directories to certain subdirectories in your Mega account. Or you can just link one local directory to the "root" of your Mega account for a full sync (like how Dropbox works with everything having to be in the Dropbox folder.) The client's UI also shows you recently changed/added files, how much of your 50GB you're using, gives you quick access to your local Mega folder or your account on the Mega website, shows syncing status, etc.
It also has some interesting looking features (which I've never used because I only just found out about them while checking out the client for this writeup) such as "Import Links" which allows you to paste in a Mega link (or several in batch) to add them to your Mega account. "Stream from Mega" allows you to choose a file on your Mega account (or a Mega link from someone else's account) and stream it. I'm assuming this is for videos and possibly audio, but it looks like it allows you to select which application to open the file(s) with so I guess anything that makes sense to do that with will work.
And one major nice thing about Mega over Dropbox is that Mega has end-to-end encryption, so they can't snoop on or leak your files like Dropbox can and has.
In fact, writing this up, I've practically convinced myself to switch over to Mega from Dropbox. Hmm... :-\
-Deozaan (February 05, 2016, 12:46 PM)
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Thanks for that Deozaan, high praise indeed. I've worked out some simple functionality and for the time being I think I'll use baby steps until I get the feel for it. I had no idea about Dropbox leaking info.....
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