Comments on: No More Syncplicity, Now What?

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:58:15 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I’ve been using Sugarsync for about six months without any glitches. My only issue is that certain processes are not entirely intuitive, like how to stop synching and then recover the space on the cloud. The last update improved the interface a good deal, but I don’t really know about the phantom file issue. My only issue with it, and I think this is true of Dropbox as well, is that it will not sync files which reside on a server.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:43:59 +0000

Hey Jeff,

I’ve been on Dropbox for a very long time now with zero problems. Like Aaron, I had some problems with SugarSync that caused me to lose confidence.

I’m not trying to evangelize for Dropbox, but I have gotten around the inconvenience of having everything stored in your “Dropbox” folder by using shortcuts, or as Apple calls them, “aliases.” I make a shortcut for my active clients folder (and other frequently accessed folders) that’s inside Dropbox and put the shortcuts on my desktop. They’re easy to access for quick drag ‘n drops, and you can use the shortcuts in Save dialogues.

Don’t know if that helps or if you’ve already figured that out, but there it is for what it’s worth.

You may want to check out Windows Live Mesh. Despite the name, it does work with Macs – so they say.

Good luck!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:09:39 +0000

Aaron,

Thank you for your feedback. The problem I had with Dropbox is that, when I tested it, you had to keep all your synched files in a Dropbox folder within your Documents folder. For various reasons, we’d really prefer not to do that. I really liked Syncplicity’s capability to have several different folders that are synched individually and can be in different places on each computer. But that may be something I just have to give up. I’d appreciate hearing any updates on your Dropbox testing, though.

Funny thing with Backblaze. I went to their website and was wondering why the woman in the video was using such a crappy-looking laptop. And then she set it on fire and it all made sense.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:16:31 +0000

We had used Sugarsync but at a certain point it was showing quirks. Okay it was just 2 quirks but it was unacceptable. It showed a place were the file was but the actual file was gone. Bad news. And, really, problematic for syncing critical documents for a law office. I had a worse experience with iDisk. It gets a resounding thumbs down from me.

I am currently test driving Dropbox (not an option for you?) and the results are promising. I still think Sugarsync looks better and has better features. At the end of the day, this is about trust and reliability. Aesthetics have to take second place in this subject.
For backup, we use Apple’s Time Capsule and Blackblaze.

My 2 cents.