Backup, synchronise & share important files
Platform : Windows XP, Windows Vista
Type: freeware
Manufacturer: Evenflow
Size: 14MB
Rating: 5
Verdict:
Promising tool for enabling you to backup your files online, synchronise
across your various computers and even share with other users
System Requirements:
Modern technology enables a team to operate in different locations across
your company and the world. If you’re a software developer, there’s no reason
why you couldn’t pick the best programmers based in Germany, document writers
from the UK, whilst your graphic artists could be based in the States.
The problem is bringing these people together. You need a system where your
team or teams can share files and information, make sure that no-one overwrites
someone else’s work and keep a collection of previously updated files, so you
can quickly reverse back to a previous revision, if necessary. Doing this on
your website requires you have the relevant versioning technology and that it
will work across various operating systems. A versioning tool that works fine on
Windows may not be suitable for OS X.
DropBox is an online sharing tool that enables you to select the files you
want to share and synchronise with other users, then simply upload them to the
remote site. That bit is done automatically, so you don’t need to worry about
having to upload the files manually. You can share folders and collaborate with
other users on the files within these folders. Versioning will stop work being
overwritten.
You can just use DropBox on a personal level, too. If you own a desktop
computer at home, use another at work and a laptop when you’re away from the
office, simply use DropBox to synchronise your important files across each
machine. You can also access your DropBox files from the web, if you need access
from a temporary host PC.
It’s not quite as effective as, say, SugarSync, which will attempt to
synchronise documents from your Windows ‘My Documents’ folder to the relevant
Documents folder on your Mac, and vice-versa.
DropBox will limit you to 2GB of free online storage (and you can purchase
more, if required) and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.