Dropbox.

vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
Anyone use "Dropbox",I mean is it dodgy/illegal or anything like that,or is it safe to use?
A friend has asked me to use it to view a video of him playing the guitar at a charity show ,but I'm always wary of something I don't know much about it :).
 
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vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
SimonM said:
Dropbox is fine - as to as to your mate's dodgy video; that's another matter!
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No,it's not a dodgy video,I have no interest in such things,it's a video of him playing the guitar and singing at a charity show like I said,lol.I was asking if dropbox was dodgy or safe to use.
 
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SimonM

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vanthus said:
No,it's not a dodgy video,I have no interest in such things,it's a video of him playing the guitar and singing at a charity show like I said,lol.I was asking if dropbox was dodgy or safe to use.
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Yeh - I should have put a smiley in. I was joking.

Seriously though, Dropbox is a well established service. There are plenty more now that do much the same thing, but it's been around longer than most.

You can use it to:
provide off-site backup (cloud storage)
keep folders synchronised between several devices
share stuff with other people.

I use it for all three. Never had a problem, but I don't exactly push the boundaries.
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
SimonM said:
Yeh - I should have put a smiley in. I was joking.

Seriously though, Dropbox is a well established service. There are plenty more now that do much the same thing, but it's been around longer than most.

You can use it to:
provide off-site backup (cloud storage)
keep folders synchronised between several devices
share stuff with other people.

I use it for all three. Never had a problem, but I don't exactly push the boundaries.
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Thanks SimonM,that's what I wanted to know. + rep. :)
 
MadMan

MadMan

Super Star
I use it everyday. Its installed on my pc and all my work gets synced online automatically. Its safe to use :).
Oh and Congrats on becoming a moderator, you deserve it.
 
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dogbot

Bright Spark
OK,so you're 20 years old (maybe). You then put 50 years worth of a lifetimes photos,videos and other family momentos to the cloud.

Then you die.

What happens then. Is it all lost, or does the account pass to next of kin.

At the moment the cloud is relatively new but who knows what the longer term effects would be.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
I've been a Dropbox user for some years and it's fine. It's neither dodgy nor illegal and it is safe to use.

I have written and maintain a free pilot for the island of Crete (a pilot is a sailors guide book) which I distribute via my public folder in Dropbox so that anyone can download it (it's at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25934908/Crete Pilot.pdf if anyone here is likely to sail around Crete and would like a copy. It's completely free). I also keep all our personal data (images of passports, certificates etc.) on my private Dropbox folders so that in the event we loose the boat and the laptop I can get at that stuff from any computer. I have the data encrypted so that nobody at Dropbox can read it and I keep the installation file for the encryption tool on Dropbox too.

2GB is free. That's not a lot these days I know but for what I use it for it's perfectly fine.
 
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