You may be like me, a heavy Mac user with two computers (laptop and main), iphone with lots of data that has to have the exact same content on all machines, no matter which piece of equipments is updating the working files. There are various solutions out there that will provide internet synching, and I’ve tried three or four of them in the last six months, but they didn’t impress me….until now. A newcomer to the scene is an application called DROPBOX. They take the KISS mantra to the extreme level.
You start off by downloading the app and installing it on both machines, you set up a free account with 2 Gig of free data storage, (upgradeable at a premium), then link your equipment. It is that easy…and it is reliable and fast as it is easy….
I can now travel with my MBP and work on files, transfer files,delete files on the MBP, and come home and find all updates current on my MAC Pro. And…let’s say I made a deletion on the MBP and really didn’t want to, and it takes a few days after I return to discover my error. All is not lost, just hop up to DROPBOX and you can look thru your history and reinstall file back into the folder and both machines are in synch !!
There is only one feature that has limitation, that they say they are working on. You need to establish a SEPARATE folder for DROPBOX, and then put your subfolders into it. This means, if you have photos stored in a unique location, you need to move those folders as a subfolder into the dropbox folder. For now, I don’t find that an problem at all. I like to have one place for my active files that must be in exact synch, and using this application focused on that workflow is extremely beneficial.
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