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IRL (In Real Life) => Tech Talk => Topic started by: Bison on August 08, 2012, 04:01:57 PM

Title: Dropbox
Post by: Bison on August 08, 2012, 04:01:57 PM
Anyone use this service?  I'd be interested to hear some feed back on how well it works or doesn't.
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: Keunert on August 08, 2012, 04:15:09 PM
i use it for work: never had a problem works like a charm
rather cheap for what's it doing:

i have all files on all different stations, it's my only backup system
allows to work local, in two years not one crash

only minus:

if you buy an account, it is only an account for one user.
you cannot share let's say the 100gb with your wife
to share your family pics: bot would need an account or she
will only have access to the  500mb free space that everybody can get.
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: Keunert on August 08, 2012, 04:16:28 PM
btw works well for pbem: we used it for AT Gold, it's free to get an 50mb account, everybody saves on the shared folder,
no hassle who's turn it is, or who the turn has: with the correct naming everybody can check who is next to play
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: Bison on August 08, 2012, 04:18:15 PM
Quote from: Keunert on August 08, 2012, 04:16:28 PM
btw works well for pbem: we used it for AT Gold, it's free to get an 50mb account, everybody saves on the shared folder,
no hassle who's turn it is, or who the turn has: with the correct naming everybody can check who is next to play

That was one of the primary reasons I was looking at it.
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: mirth on August 08, 2012, 04:57:40 PM
Dropbox is great. Convenient and easy to use. A free account gets you 2GB of space. There other things you can do to earn more free space.
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: undercovergeek on August 08, 2012, 04:58:52 PM
i use it for CMBN Pbems - its a great tool, very easy to set up in 2 mins
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 08, 2012, 05:00:20 PM
I've used it for some work files.  Never had a problem with it.
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: Grimnirsson on August 08, 2012, 05:01:00 PM
Same here, nice tool :)
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: undercovergeek on August 08, 2012, 05:04:17 PM
i wonder if we talked him into it  :)
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: mirth on August 08, 2012, 05:55:02 PM
Here's one article on ways to get additional free space-

red66.com/2012/03/dropbox-free-space-22gb/ (http://red66.com/2012/03/dropbox-free-space-22gb/)

I used the author's referral link to set up a new account and got an extra 500MB (the article says it's good for 250MB).
Title: Re: Dropbox
Post by: TheCommandTent on August 08, 2012, 06:07:09 PM
Ok now you have me intrigued about Dropbox.  Although I'm not sure I actually need something else downloaded on my computer.



Can anyone play devils advocate and tell me why I don't need or shouldn't get Dropbox?