The problem is I don't want links, I just want an online storage place that members can access to find what they want. The problem with links is that if I send the link in a group email on Monday and then a member joins our Google group on Wednesday they would not have received the email so they don't know the file's there unless I send them an email when they join listing all the other files I added before they joined too with links to those. And the same for the next member who joins the following week, and then ...
Stephen On 13 Jul 2010, at 10:42, Edmund Craske wrote: > On 12/07/2010 18:17, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can anyone recommend an online storage for sharing rehearsal parts for our >> choir? >> >> My original plan was to use DropBox - cross platform, 50GB and mobile too. >> Seemed just the job, until I read that every free user (i.e. members of the >> choir) would find that the 50GB (or whatever portion is used) they are >> sharing counts against their 2GB quota. So after adding a few more files >> than we have at present to the 50GB 'cloud' they would all be over their 2GB >> quota and it would all fall apart. >> >> What I've done at present is share a folder on my iDisk but it means that >> I'm the bottleneck and they all end up with delete privileges in my shared >> folder. >> >> So I'm just after a single chunk of space that everyone can access that can >> handle about 50GB - does such a beast exist? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ >> from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even >> incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein >> >> > > If all you need is a way for them to download files, surely any old web > hosting would do? Or given that you already have a 50GB Dropbox account, if > you put the files into the Public folder of your Dropbox, you can hand out > links to them directly... That saves any faffing around with other accounts > or allowing other people to change things! > > Ed > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
