You cannot share those files on carbonite and hte last time I used them I lost about 120 gigs of stuff when it refused to download. and when I could get it to download it took over a week lol! so I think I'll use dropbox to back up the 50gigs of stuff I soon will have.
Take care all On Nov 24, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Bubba wrote: > Hi, why not use something like carbonate and you still have access to your > files but it does not make two copies it just back your files up to the > cloud! JST ! > > > Bubba > bubbatheg...@gmail.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 2:28 PM > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: A question about this Drop Box programme > > Yeah it is duplicated. That's fine wiht me as most of my crap is on an > external drive and I'm only using about 12 gig out of my 50 I'm paying fore > but yeah. I don't knwo of any othe rway of sharing files that are large > other then dropbox as it seems more stable then https. > On Nov 23, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > >> hello Sarah >> >> I think Tracy's concern is that absolutely everything is replicated so, > for instance, if we have a folder on our hard drive that we share on Drop > Box, we have it twice on each machine. Your point about unsharing folders is > a very valid one; and I think we're going to have to find a different way of > storing our large folders other than on the home drive because currently > it's eating up about 50GB having the two copies. >> >> Lynne >> >> >> On 22 Nov 2011, at 16:14, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >> think of dropbox like an odd ftp server. they are not technically > available on the website, well they are if you don't have the client > installed but once they are uploaded to the server they are download to our > computer. and let's say if you are working on an outboard project they can > get it when there computer downloads your file. If you don't want that > person to be on the project anymore you can simply unshare that folder with > that person and set it up so it removes everything in there shared folder > and I mean everything. no warning. This happened to me when I got kicked off > of shockwave radio. Promos, station ids everything got removed. >> >> Also when a person removes a file from there folder it is reflected > instantly on your side. and it does not go to the trash either. It is simply > gone. >> >> Take care and hope that help a bit. >> On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Tracy Thompson wrote: >> >>> Hello group >>> >>> I hope you don't mind but I have a question about this drop box thing. I > am apparently being given a Mac for my Christmas present by Gordon and Lynne > which is amazing enough. But Lynne is talking about Drop Box because she > says it would let us synchronize our machines with music and things. >>> >>> Anyway the thing I am confused about is this. If the files are stored on > the Drop Box which as I understand it is a remote web site, how is it that > there is a Drop Box folder on the hard drive of every machine that is > synchronised? What I'm asking is what's the point if all your machines are > on the same net? For example if I can log into Gordon and Lynne's machines, > why use Drop Box because all of the files are accessible anyway? 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