Battersea Power Station
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I saw some headlines 2 days ago that Dropbox is now letting you publicize a link to an entire folder, but I haven't tested it yet.
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Google Drive is live - 5.0+ GB for everyone
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No. I have an old Picasa account with the $5.00/20 Gigs/YR. It's 25Gigs shared across all services.
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* Your current plan is no longer offered.
That $5.00 for 20 gigs was awesome! Too bad it's gone the way of the Dodo. At least I have until December to upgrade.
i have no idea. Its shared, but my Drive account shows only .16gb used of 25gb, but if i go to my picasa account it has 14gb of 21gb used. So something's whacky.
Also note that if your pictures are under a certain resolution they dont count against your storage.
Skydrive is useless if you have an android phone?
marathonfool
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I'm using Skydrive (25GB!) as my main cloud backup and Google Drive as a Google Doc depository. I hate the Google interface on the browser, the white space is horrible. I'm still annoyed they forced me to change my gmail design.
Pretty much nothing changed, although I like how they finally managed to separate shared files and my own files.
Pretty much nothing changed, although I like how they finally managed to separate shared files and my own files.
Live Free or Die
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same here. :-(
thats almost half of what it costs me for 20gig!
shysaursoft
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Be warned - if you've been using Collections to have docs tagged with multiple tags (like I have for the last six years), signing up for Gdrive makes a fundamental changes to your Google Docs. You can't have collections anymore.
You can still 'temporarily switch to classic view', but that won't last forever.
It's a pretty big screwup for me, because now docs that were organized are suddenly showing up in the wrong folders, because Gdrive isn't intelligent in how it decides which tag to make the primary folder for the document, and the doc won't appear in all folders.
I'm hoping they either fix this, or let me not use Gdrive at all and revert back to classic Google Docs as my main interface. Collections are too important, to lose them just for 5GB of free space.
You can still 'temporarily switch to classic view', but that won't last forever.
It's a pretty big screwup for me, because now docs that were organized are suddenly showing up in the wrong folders, because Gdrive isn't intelligent in how it decides which tag to make the primary folder for the document, and the doc won't appear in all folders.
I'm hoping they either fix this, or let me not use Gdrive at all and revert back to classic Google Docs as my main interface. Collections are too important, to lose them just for 5GB of free space.
Display Density options...
They need to clarify this. The details website is still unclear as what counts and what doesn't and what goes up to what limit.
If its 25GB each for Picasa, Google and Drive (docs) then that is a good plan. If its 25GB for all three combined, its not as cool. If its 25 for Gmail and 25 for Picasa/Drive then its meh.
Considering all integration is not there yet, I am curious to see how this develops.
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#1 reason why I won't be using this service as my primary cloud storage option.
I look forward to seeing what Dropbox do to combat Google Drive.
#1 reason why I won't be using this service as my primary cloud storage option.
I look forward to seeing what Dropbox do to combat Google Drive.
As of right now it appears that my storage is shared between Picasa/GMail with my Drive storage being separate.
:lol that's true.
I hope Dropbox up their game big time (not sure how though).
I love the Google white space. So simple and sexy.
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Zombie James
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Isn't syncing the whole point? There are plenty of issues with cloud storage and data integrity is one of them (some data centre catastrophe or natural disaster or something). Not keeping/syncing local copies of your files isn't a wise thing to do with any service.
marathonfool
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Already done it. The lack of contrast that gives visual dividers and unnecessary use of icons instead of words is annoying. Minimal design is fine, but I think they went overboard.
So your local copies of the files get delete? We need a confirmation on this.
It's like saying if you lose access to Music, all your local MP3s are gone...that doesn't sound right.
ZackieChan
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How is Dropbox customer service? I honestly don't know. Just curious.
My fear would be a similar situation to the EA forums bannings.
So you say something rude to someone on g+ and then your whole account including drive gets locked.
its not, its a stupid comment
ThatObviousUser
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Not the case. Even when the whole Nymwars nonsense was happening Google only blocked access to your profile and Google+ until you complied. Gmail, etc., were still accessible.
That's nice then. Because I dont need 25GB of Gmail. But I do have a lot of documents and a lot of pictures. So having those two independent makes a lot of sense.
If you're connected to the internet and someone from Dropbox/Google deletes your files they will be auto deleted from your computer because of the auto sync.
Unless if they deactivate your account, preventing sync and then they delete it.
At least that's how I see it. Same risk with Dropbox.
Unless if they deactivate your account, preventing sync and then they delete it.
At least that's how I see it. Same risk with Dropbox.
planar1280
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hmmmm this looks nice. on a cost effective basis, is a NAS drive better or Cloud drives like this
victreeb3l
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only reason im excited about this is it will potentially get dropbox to lower their prices. otherwise, ill pass on google
Uno Venova
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I hope an option to limit bandwidth is coming soon.
Well I already used Google Docs for cloud storage in a lot more clumsy way, so this is a nice bonus for me. Hopefully they continue to improve the product, and maybe I can drop DropBox all together, managing multiple cloud sharing products is probably going to be exhausting.
Anything synced to your Dropbox should also be kept in another location on the hard drive as well so that it can't be lost.
No. I have an old Picasa account with the $5.00/20 Gigs/YR. It's 25Gigs shared across all services.
See:
* Your current plan is no longer offered.
That $5.00 for 20 gigs was awesome! Too bad it's gone the way of the Dodo. At least I have until December to upgrade.
So Picasa finally match its price to flickr pro's. Too bad its interface is garbage. It's totally unusable for photographers.
edit: wait the price is close enough but flickr has unlimited space.
If you collect movies than NAS is a no brainer.
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Well shit
They seem to have missed the mark for "Download to Mobile" for Skydrive.
Okay, waitwant to make sure I'm clear on the problem here.
So, before, collections were basically just a filter for tags you had created to organize things, and documents could have multiple tags associated to them. So the problem now is that documents can't exist in multiple folders (which I guess are a replacement for tags)? And in switching over, for docs that have multiple tags, it's kind of arbitrary as to which folder it decides to assign a document to?
I only use one tag per document, so this won't affect me much if that's the case. But, it's a very unfortunate move if true. The reason the future is tags not folders is because of just thatthe ability for files to live in multiple places at the same time.
ThatObviousUser
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Google+ Photos is a Picasa reskin that's easier on the eyes and has unlimited storage for pictures up to 2048px in size and videos 15 minutes in length. IMO Google+ Photos is easily better than Flickr in every way, shape, and form.
shysaursoft
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Except, y'know, that pesky thing of not having sub-albums. So every single album is always top-level, and you have to resort to stupid naming conventions to keep things tidy.
In the new Docs interface, you can't even assigned multiple tags. That entire interface is replaced, where all you can do is Move a document into a Folder.
It literally turns tags into folders.
As long as you don't move existing files via the web interface, they retain their "being in multiple places" status.
However, if you sync your docs to your PC, the folder structure on your PC with your docs in them, will have the files in arbitrary folders. It doesn't affect the online side of it, unless you move the local copy of the doc to a different folder, then (after it syncs back up) it strips all the tags and has only the single folder as a "tag".
Considering I have six years worth of docs, 5000+ documents, I'm a little worried about the future of Collections.
ThatObviousUser
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Eh, Picasa was the same. It's not a big deal and never has been.
shysaursoft
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Not to you. But the lack of sub-albums has been frustrating me since day one with Picasaweb. It doesn't matter in the Picasa desktop client, because that fucker has folders and subfolders, LOL.
This. I wish the desktop interface was mirrored online. Allow folder/subfolder categorization, and also allow albums that are location independent.
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