Decided I need to get my photo's somewhere safe. I have considerably more than the free 7GB though (which surprised me). The price for 50GB is £16.00 a year so only £1.33 a month. The sync app doesn't work perfectly for how I want to use it but I can get round it by placing symbolic links in the SkyDrive folder. I've had a little look round and can't find anything that comes close. What does everyone else use?
SkyDrive the cheapest?
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Flickr give you 1Tb now as standard I believe
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I use Skydrive however only on the free account when I go over at that price I'll buy more.
However I have a Windows Phone and run Windows8 so it works really well for me.
However I have a Windows Phone and run Windows8 so it works really well for me.
drop box is very convenient. the program makes a directory on your pc to mirror your cloud data. so anything you change there, will be uploaded/synced. likewise if you amend the data with another pc online, tablet, phone etc. then your main pc is kept up to date.
very nice integration, just use the standard windows interface and it sorts the rest behind the scenes. drag and drop
very nice integration, just use the standard windows interface and it sorts the rest behind the scenes. drag and drop
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Skydrive has it's uses, although the 2GB file limit and the fact it actively scans your photos are both pointlessly irritating. Also seems extremely slow at retrieving files e.g. after a clean install it was pulling stuff down at 1.5Mb... Advantage with dropbox is you can (with tinkering) force it to encrypt all your files before upload automatically - which is convenient.
However, for the cost it's difficult to justify when something like crashplan is literally 1/5th-1/6th the price, has a better client and encryption built in. It's been recommended by a lot of places the past few years for a reason
However, for the cost it's difficult to justify when something like crashplan is literally 1/5th-1/6th the price, has a better client and encryption built in. It's been recommended by a lot of places the past few years for a reason
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SkyDrive used to be slow but now it's just as fast as my connection (FTTC)
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As much as I admire Dotcom's life achievements and general disregard for The Man, I'd prefer somewhere more "reputable", if that's the word, for backing up files
It would be interesting to see the speed of the desktop client.
As much as I admire Dotcom's life achievements and general disregard for The Man, I'd prefer somewhere more "reputable", if that's the word, for backing up files
It still need a decent desktop client.
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It's the desktop client I use mainly. I drag files into it, it probably spends about 20 seconds processing the files depending on what's in there, and then off it goes at 8-10 Mbps. It used to be dog slow but they fixed it sometime last year, for me at least.
I thought the SkyDrive folder on the PC was a symbolic link to the cloud storage area. I'd didn't think it would be a direct physical mirror of the cloud storage that syncs.
When you install the client, you can choose to sync all folders within, or choose which folders within the skydrive folder to sync. That will probably do what you want?
http://www.howtogeek.com/tips/how-to-selectively-sync-folders-from-your-skydrive-to-your-pc/
http://www.howtogeek.com/tips/how-to-selectively-sync-folders-from-your-skydrive-to-your-pc/
