Microsoft’s online storage product, Windows Live SkyDrive, is an interesting beast. 25 GB of storage for free is pretty incredible, but they sure make it hard to actually consume that storage.
For instance, uploading multiple files is a real pain. You can’t upload a directory. There’s a 50 MB maximum file size. I’m sure not many
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I’m a huge fan of Dropbox, it has become a very important part of how I work on multiple machines. Honest, I love it.
With that out of the way, I have to admit that there’s one aspect that drives me absolutely nuts. It seems Dropbox just isn’t happy unless it is notifiying me of every
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While poking around and looking for space I happened to notice the following:
I have a “Dropbox cache” folder using 2 GB! What makes this interesting to me is that I am using just under 900 MB on Dropbox.
I’d theorize that this is used to help offline and versioning scenarios(?) but shouldn’t it cleaned up at
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Just a quick note: Dropbox has launched today. No more chasing invites. Looks like the Linux client has gone live today as well.
This has become my most used online storage and “casual” syncing tool. I’m glad to see it has formally launched!
I’ve been dabbling with Microsoft’s Live Mesh since last April. Just last month I was debating between using Mesh or Dropbox for my online storage needs. It was close, but at the time I chose Mesh.
Today I decided that I’m ready to be done with Mesh for a while. I kept hoping to get
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