Comments on: SugarSync: Fresh Take on Synchronization

By: jay Jones

jay Jones — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:22:41 +0000

WARNING DO NOT USE SUGARSYNC! SUGARSYNC lost all of my data and could not retrieve it from their own server. This company is a joke, they held my company hostage for 2 weeks trying to find my files that Sugarsync some how deleted from my desktop! Their horribly inept techs could not figure out where my data went so they just decided not to call me back. I finally got in touch with Debbie, Sr. Director, SugarSync Customer Care and she tried to make me feel stupid and that the whole thing was my fault. Sugarsync does not care about small businesses and their customer service is horrible.

By: sem

sem — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:44:32 +0000

Sounds like a real interesting app. My one concern as it seems to be for many other posters as well is not being compatible with Linux. That is a large portion of the market these days and you guys are completely missing that piece. I am sure in the future you will work out the kinks.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:07:33 +0000

Use this referral on a Free 2Gb account and get another 0.5GB free – hope that helps

https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=fcmhetfa3g3ob

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:09:57 +0000

I just looked at hyperoffice – it is insanely expensive as compared to SugarSync. It would cost almost $500 a year and still not have enough storage space to backup my PST file – it’s 500MB for that price. Sugarsync gives you over 100 *GB* of storage for less than that price. It’s clearly a completely different category. In fact, it’s what we use to backup development efforts. Different products for different purposes.

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:52:34 +0000

There are benefits. 1 – convenience of not having to find another program to sync with some SSD or thumb drive. 2 – backups done automatically in the background (although it is very process heavy at times) 3 – Easy point and click and done. 4 – Off site storage so taht in case your thumb drive is lost or stolen there is all your data in a safe facility.

By: Remote access software

Remote access software — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:26:31 +0000

What if I delete a file by mistake or make some bad edits? Previously I had backups in other media that I could use but these are now all destroyed. Also do we really need this application? Why dont you get a 4 gig thumb drive and use it everywhere? For that matter you could even use a 160Gig solid state drive – once the price drops to a few bucks soon. Lastly you could use remote acess software such as: ProxyNetworks, Bomgar or GotomyPC.

I personally want to control how files are copied myself, but thats me.

Does it work in Linux?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:55:10 +0000

in the times that everybody is moving towards integrated solutions, i wonder how anybody would be satisfied with JUST file synching and access. for example HyperOffice allows:- - file storage, synch, AND sharing and collaboration (versioning, notifications, access permissions, backups) across devices (Mac, PC, iphone, blackberry, windows mobile) -synching AND sharing of mail, contacts, tasks and calendars across the above mentioned devices. -allows you to set up Outlook accounts without MS Exchange ( exchange alternative ) AND you can access, share and synch Outlook mail, contacts, tasks, calendars across the above devices. -Includes an intranet/extranet page publisher -includes forums, polls, chat, billing/expense application, unified login -you can integrate their web conferencing solution HyperMeeting with HyperOffice if you like. if you can get all that at one place......WHY SETTLE FOR LESS???

By: Laura Roeder

Laura Roeder — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:15:34 +0000

I thought I understood how sugarsync worked until they deleted all my uploaded files with no warning. No response to my ticket and no email or phone number provided. Guess I have to find another option.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:29 +0000

By the way SugarSync just launched an iPhone app. I am downloading it as we speak..

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:03:35 +0000

SugarSync does not use SyncML. SyncML is very network inefficient and it only handles Contactcs and Caledar. SugarSync uses a much more powerful general purpose sync engine/algorithms that can deal with any data type and it has to be data/network efficient

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:39:38 +0000

What about DataCase on the iPhone?

By: Saurabh Kaushik, PMP

Saurabh Kaushik, PMP — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:13:45 +0000

Definitely it is good service. I have few comments on it.
* As a developer, I would like to know more about kind a technology they use in it. Is it SyncML?
* As a user, I would like to go only with one service which can fill all my need of syncing everything from bookmark, contact, calender to files. Will they expand into it?
* As blogger, I would say Funambol is a closure solution in this area. But they lack of File Syncing service. Will these two solution (Funambol and SugarSync) come together under one umbrella?

By: PB

PB — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:56:08 +0000

SugarSync also offers online backup, remote web access, mobile sync, a way to sync files without physically replicating it everywhere (Lite Sync).

Here’s David Pogue’s review from the NY Times today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html

By: Zia

Zia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:59:25 +0000

Sugarsync is good but not as good as FolderShare. The only biggest plus of Sugarsync is its mobile interface that FolderShare lacks/