Comments on: Folder Sync Battle: Dropbox vs SugarSync

By: lebisol

lebisol — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:09:17 +0000

Thanks for the write up and while maybe dated compared to this comment still holds truth.
I really like Dropbox and hope they don't take a turn int "sharing" and "social" realms as before you know it people want to link it to every other possible social-ego-centric app such as facebook, flickers etc…and hello bloatware and increase in pricing.
I wonder if you have reconsidered Windows Live Share as it has mac support now?
Thanks!

By: @haraldsolheim

@haraldsolheim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:43:08 +0000

You can actually backup/synchronise any folder on your disk with Dropbox. Just make a link to the folder you want to backup and put the link in your Dropbox folder.

In Nautilus on linux this would be: Right-click the folder and choose Make link. Then move the link to your Dropbox folder and rename to whatever you like.

By: briefcase

briefcase — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:53:55 +0000

Cool stuff, thank you for sharing.

By: Tin t?c games

Tin t?c games — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:51:10 +0000

I'm personally refer to DropBox, for my Mac and Windows also

By: Sam Davyson

Sam Davyson — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:23:45 +0000

I don't understand why you say that DropBox is not suitable for backup.

If you move the files that you would like to be kept safe into your DropBox then they are backed up to the cloud. They can be accessed from any computer using the web interface, or if your hard drive dies from your new computer by installing and signing into DropBox. I think you have slightly misunderstood the product to be honest.

By: Crazydog

Crazydog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:15:59 +0000

Dropbox DOES have a speed + ETA (at lest in Windows). Just right click the tray icon, or whatever the equivalent of doing that in the Mac version is.

By: Stefan Neagu

Stefan Neagu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:47:25 +0000

I agree with P. Andrade.

By: P. Andrade

P. Andrade — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:15:29 +0000

SugarSync is by far a more complete product. If you only want to share a few folders in a FIXED location for free Dropbox it’s probably OK. Do not use it if you have serious documents because it’s not reliable. If you want to be able to backup and access ANY folder, backup any data online, access the data from mobile web browsers, iPhone/Blackberry/WinMo mobile devices, and stream your music files to the Web and iPhone etc. then SugarSync is the only option.

By: Bigbluealien

Bigbluealien — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:45:26 +0000

I’ve been using dropbox for a while now and its great, the only extra feature I’d want from it is maybe an “on demand” option where files are only downloaded when requested or a “not to this computer” option so I can select certain files to show up on most computers but not have them try to download to my tiny 4Gb AspireOne.

By: Stefan Neagu

Stefan Neagu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:13 +0000

A note to the readers – I don’t know if someone is doing this on purpose but submitting my articles to digg using absolutely hideous titles and descriptions is not helping me at all – and in fact it ruins the domain’s karma. So, please, if you don’t want to bother writing a proper description just don’t submit it.

By: Vadi

Vadi — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:59:22 +0000

I’m sticking with Dropbox, it seems much better still.