Comments on: FolderShare vs. Dropbox

By: sem

sem — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:19 +0000

Out of these two, I would have to say I favor FolderShare. FolderShare links two computers that are already online. So for remote access of your files, FolderShare is the clear winner. I am a fan of remote access so this works well for me.

By: remote control software

remote control software — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:55:58 +0000

The hibernating computer issue kills foldershare. If I need to access my files anywhere else it’s because I’m not there, so how can I wake my computer from sleep? Dropbox it is.

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By: Filip

Filip — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:22:53 +0000

Hi Stacey. Full disclosure here: I work for http://www.nomadesk.com, which offers small businesses (or nomadic professionals, as we like to call ourselves) an innovative way to share documents and work together on a “virtual fileserver.” I read your post on Dropbox and Foldershare with great interest and just wanted to add NomaDesk to the mix. Actually, NomaDesk comes with a feature set specifically geared toward the digital nomad, such as local encryption and “remote shredding” with TheftGuard. Of course, your files remain available off-line and we impose absolutely no limits on storage and bandwidth. The upcoming NomaDesk release 2.6 will display file states and indicate whether files are already in use by someone else. You will also be able to add and review notes (i.e. meta-data).

I would appreciate your review.

Thanks!

By: topcomputer

topcomputer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:29:30 +0000

What is up with the 10.000 files limit of the folder share ? If you exceed the limit you suppose to do what? Uninstall the software? Pay a certain amount of money? Do what? They don t explain why is a 10.000 file limit. To bad it looked lice a nice software rendered useless by Microsoft as usual.

By: sjoerd

sjoerd — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:59:25 +0000

the 10.000 limit of FS is a real problem for workers far away from their syncronised (backup) system. Being 4000 km away from my home server I received the message about exceeding the maximum files. My laptop was removed and the advice was to remove some files and reconnect the laptop. Removed files and reconnect laptop. Surprise, surprise : from the home desktop FS start to syncronise and put all the deleted files on my laptop again with result : message again. wonderful example of a death lock

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SugarSync Sweetens Service With an iPhone App - GigaOM — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:37:18 +0000

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By: lightyear

lightyear — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:40:21 +0000

I had used gbridge software that is based on google network and it is much faster! Checkout http://gbridge.com You only need a google user account, then you can do file sharing/synchronization between your machines and friends. In addition it has powerful browse functions that allow you to play slideshow or play music instantly before you decide to download/sync. There is no limit on file size (I have tried a 5GB file) and number of files.

You can also share the desktop through builtin VNC or windows remote desktop share. It work behind NAT like a charm with zero configuration. I can see that it connects my machines directly (without relaying through 3rd party machine), so it is much faster than relaying through servers.

The only pity is that it doesn’t support Mac.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:25:31 +0000

Foldershare is great, but it doesn't recognize files with Mac resource forks. That means no Freehand files, no Photoshop files with icons or previews saved (just change your Photoshop prefs), and unfortunately, no files that get previews added by Leopard's Finder view options setting, which keeps defaulting back to checking "Show icon preview" no matter how many times I uncheck it.

Given the clearly low priority for MS, I don't see this being something they are likely to fix soon, since it is an esoteric issue on a platform they aren't that fond of.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:09:46 +0000

I’ve used FolderShare for a couple of years now and it works rather well. I use it mainly as an immediate backup system. My MacBook Pro will backup wirelessly and automatically whenever I’m home. However, for work projects where files change often, I use FolderShare to sync my project directories to a work PC that is always on and connected. I’ve found that after saving changes to a file, the changes are on the PC within 1-2 minutes. This means if my laptop goes up in a ball of fire, I have a full backup at home and all of my current work projects are synced remotely within the last 1-5 minutes. FolderShare is really the network version of the old adage “remember to save your work periodically in case of a crash.”

Notes: – I usually don’t have too many files per share (To. – Make sure you have an update-to-date sync on the backup machine before you work or you’ll cause confusion.

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By: Dr Bob

Dr Bob — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:36:31 +0000

I've been using Foldershare since before MS bought them out, and have been a huge fan, keeping about 4-5 PCs synced at home and work. It's a bandwidth hog, though, with no way to throttle except by number of uploads/downloads at a time. No way to schedule it, and no file filters either, sadly -- a tolerable limitation. It also is a CPU hog when scanning directories for changes, even on multicore Intel PCs.

Just today, however, I hit a major burp: after adding a few new files to a library on one machine, the directory was dropped because there were more than 10,000 files contained within it.

Problem is, it's had well over 10,000 files in it for over 2 years, with no problems -- and has not been dropped by the other machines. Methinks MS just put a file limit in, which is nowhere documented and not backward compatible.

Serious problem, not good -- time to look elsewhere, perhaps.

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By: saurabhkaushik

saurabhkaushik — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:57:11 +0000

I have been waiting these Cloud File System for ages, but till this date, none could come to the expectation. Microsoft always does evil and has done it with FolderShare share too by making a remote desktop access software instead. DropBox has not replied to me with invitation to join so I could not comment on it. Till date, my best bet has been the gSpace extension for Firefox. It maintain all the file in mail system and as you all know, the capacity is huge. Please send me invitation for DropBox!!! :-)

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