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From: Gordon Darling on 11 Apr 2010 12:19
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:12:26 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote:

<snip>

> Like Essential PIM, or Quotepad, or your Bookmarks folder etc. This
> eliminates the need to carry a USB stick around to keep these programs
> sync'd across multiple computers.


You don't have time to use it what with all the reinstalling of Windows
you have to do!

Quoth the Bear
"Just reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Simple. I do it all
the time."






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From: Why Tea on 11 Apr 2010 19:44
On Apr 12, 2:19 am, Gordon Darling <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:12:26 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Like Essential PIM, or Quotepad, or your Bookmarks folder etc. This
> > eliminates the need to carry a USB stick around to keep these programs
> > sync'd across multiple computers.
>
> You don't have time to use it what with all the reinstalling of Windows
> you have to do!
>
> Quoth the Bear
> "Just reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Simple. I do it all
> the time."

Well put, Gordan. BB seems to think that once the files
are in the cloud, they are accessible from everywhere like
a USB stick. He obviously forgets that his files in Dropbox
have been all sync'ed to all his machines previously. Try
having multi-MB files and see what happens on a new PC
BB.

From: Martin Jay on 12 Apr 2010 07:54
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:24 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>
wrote:

>I have multi-MB files now. I have my 2GB Dropbox almost full and have
>been using it for quite a while. It just works. Bringing various other
>computers onto the drop box worked well. When you copy two GB of files
>to a USB stick, it takes a while. It isn't instantaneous, nor is Dropbox
>for the initial load to a new machine, but it is faster than a USB
>stick.

When you use files and programs in the drop box aren't you accessing
local copies that are stored on your PC? So, you're running and
loading them from your hard drive? Little wonder it's faster than a
USB stick.

Windows Live Mesh does something similar, but offers 5GBytes of free
storage, with the added bonus that you can directly access other
computers that are part of your mesh. The downside is that it's
Windows and Mac only. :(

See <https://www.mesh.com/>.
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From: Why Tea on 12 Apr 2010 17:14
On Apr 12, 9:54 pm, Martin Jay <mar...(a)spam-free.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:24 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbotto...(a)gmai.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have multi-MB files now. I have my 2GB Dropbox almost full and have
> >been using it for quite a while. It just works. Bringing various other
> >computers onto the drop box worked well. When you copy two GB of files
> >to a USB stick, it takes a while. It isn't instantaneous, nor is Dropbox
> >for the initial load to a new machine, but it is faster than a USB
> >stick.
>
> When you use files and programs in the drop box aren't you accessing
> local copies that are stored on your PC?  So, you're running and
> loading them from your hard drive?  Little wonder it's faster than a
> USB stick.

As usual, BB seems to be confused when there are a few
twists. Then he promptly declares the best thing since the
sliced bread has arrived.

From: ftr on 14 Apr 2010 04:43
On 13/04/2010 03:00, Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Bear Bottoms<bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9D58C87A6A895bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.250:
>
>> Wow
>
> He is a reconstruction of my summary thus far:
>
Unlike SkyDrive, Live Mesh
> synchronizes across multiple devices/computer you add to Live Mesh. You
> can also remotely access your other devices/computers added to Live Mesh.
> > https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx
>

What is the additional advantage of using SkyDrive together with
DropBox? Isn't DropBox enough?

- ftr
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