For me, the automatic sync is the big attraction. It's probably no better than any other online storage system if storage is all you want from it, but the ease of sync (and the fact that I can selectively share these synced folders with non-Dropbox users) is a big plus.
-- R P.S. Dropbox keeps previous versions. Not sure how far back, but far enough back for my purposes. On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just looked up DropBox. Why is it better than other online file storage > systems? For example, Google sites includes the means to store files, up to > 10GB for free. (Dropbox includes only 2GB for free.) Windows Live SkyDrive > includes 25GB free. (I think it syncs automatically if you have Windows 7.) > Google sites seems to keep all versions of files so that one can retrieve > previous versions. I haven't found a way to retrieve previous versions from > SkyDrive and don't know if they keep them. The DropBox website didn't say > anything about keeping previous versions. > * > -- Russ * > > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote: > > Good info! gpg is new to me, so a question or two: >> - Do you use the pay Dropbox service? .. or just the free one? >> - Is gpg (http://www.gnupg.org/) easy to administer? Does it replace SSH >> key pairs? >> - Is gpg available fairly universally .. iPhone/Android, Mac/Win/Linux .. >> web hosting services? >> - What's gpg like to use? >> >> Sounds interesting. >> >> -- Owen >> >> >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: >> >> Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use >> Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two >> machines. In particular: >> >> 1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed, >> of course) and simple Python utilities all go into Dropbox & hence are >> always up to date and accessible; >> 2. my ever-growing collection of .PDFs of academic journals and papers >> goes into Dropbox so I can easily get it from any machine (and add to it >> from any of my machines). >> >> I do have Dropbox enabled on my Droid, but I don't think the Droid is >> terribly effective as an input device and its screen is just too small >> for comfortable viewing of PDFs, so I don't use it much for that. Handy in >> an emergency though. >> >> -- R >> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot? I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone >>> app would be useful. >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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