Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-19 Thread Toine
Thanks for the tip. always handy to have a spare 25Gb cloud drive available. On 19 August 2012 00:14, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: G'day all If anyone is interested in cloud storage, this offer from Box.com looks good: https://www.box.com/signup/o/hellosign_25 I've been

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-19 Thread John Sessoms
From: Jeffery Smith I have been using Dropbox for a while. It has worked well, but I have had two instances in which the entire set of folders was deleted. I was able to go back and restore them in both cases, but am at a loss to determine why the were deleted. Regards, Jeffery If you're

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-19 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-19 9:42 John Sessoms wrote If you're going to use cloud storage, you probably should have duplicate providers in case one of them gets megauploaded. that's true if your only copy of a file is in the cloud (in which case i'd suggest three providers), but with Dropbox (and unlike Box

OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all If anyone is interested in cloud storage, this offer from Box.com looks good: https://www.box.com/signup/o/hellosign_25 I've been using Box lightly for a few years and it works well. Normally the free account is 5GB (Dropbox's free account is 2GB) -- Cheers Brian

OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Igor Roshchin
Thank you, Brian. It looks like a good thing to try (without relying on them). Earlier this year, they had an offer of free 50 GB but only for Android users: http://blog.box.com/2012/02/android-users-get-50gb-free-get-your-box50gb-and-enter-the-box-mobile-giveaway/ Brian, since you have used it

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Jeffery Smith
I have been using Dropbox for a while. It has worked well, but I have had two instances in which the entire set of folders was deleted. I was able to go back and restore them in both cases, but am at a loss to determine why the were deleted. Regards, Jeffery _ Jeffery Smith

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Darren Addy
Yes, thank you Brian for sharing this info with the class. I have been avoiding signing up for Apple's iCloud since I got my iPad2, but this looks worth trying. Box.com has an app for iPhone/iPad (and I believe Android, also) One note regarding the app: its description for Top In-App Purchases is

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread John Francis
My wife uses Dropbox on a regular basis. Over the last week there have been multiple occasions where the Dropbox site was unavailable (for how long, I'm not sure - but at least one of the outages lasted longer than 20 minutes). On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 07:40:00PM -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote: I

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-18 16:14 Brian Walters wrote G'day all If anyone is interested in cloud storage, this offer from Box.com looks good: https://www.box.com/signup/o/hellosign_25 I've been using Box lightly for a few years and it works well. Normally the free account is 5GB (Dropbox's free account

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: Thank you, Brian. It looks like a good thing to try (without relying on them). You're very welcome :-) I don't rely on cloud storage but it's good to have for certain types of files in case my local backups go belly up. I mainly use Dropbox but

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-18 19:04 Darren Addy wrote Yes, thank you Brian for sharing this info with the class. I have been avoiding signing up for Apple's iCloud since I got my iPad2, but this looks worth trying. iCloud doesn't provide general file storage anyway, but if you have an Apple ID (e.g., if

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: on 2012-08-18 16:14 Brian Walters wrote G'day all If anyone is interested in cloud storage, this offer from Box.com looks good: https://www.box.com/signup/o/hellosign_25 I've been using Box lightly for a few years and it works well. Normally the

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-18 23:07 Brian Walters wrote If you want to upload folders, mapping Box.com as a network drive will allow you to do that. I mentioned this in another post in this thread but here's the tutorial link again: that does make it easier to use it works on Mac by choosing the from the

Re: OT - 25 GB Free Cloud Storage

2012-08-18 Thread Igor Roshchin
Sat Aug 18 20:40:00 EDT 2012 Jeffery Smith wrote: I have been using Dropbox for a while. It has worked well, but I have had two instances in which the entire set of folders was deleted. I was able to go back and restore them in both cases, but am at a loss to determine why the were