Re: Cloud storage

Posted by Tom Johnson on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cloud-storage-tp7582450p7582613.html

I, too, am paying for a large Dropbox account, but here are a couple things I don't like about it.
  1. I use it to share the development of a lot of projects.  But if one of the team members deletes a file, it is deleted for all of us.  Hey, let me manange MY file system, please.
  2. There is a tool called Packrat, which allows one to recover deleted files, but since I don't have to use it every day (gracias a dios), I can never remember how to open up good ol' Packrat.  All DropBox would have to do is put a button/icon on my homepage and let me dive in.  Or down.
  3. One can't share individual files, but only complete folders.  That, too, is less than ideal.
So like Russ, I'll go ahead and install the Amazon tool and give it a test drive.
-tj

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:
Matthew Yglasias has a piece on Slate about Amazon's new cloud storage service and how it's likely to kill Dropbox. Naturally I signed up.  But I already have a Dropbox account that's not full. I also have Goggle Drive and Microsoft Skydrive accounts. (I also have a Cloud Experience account.)  I'm sure I don't need all of these, but I haven't spent the time to decide what I really want to do.  Has anyone thought about this?  My needs are pretty modest. I tend not to store videos or music, just text and software.
 
-- Russ  

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