Yes, I think dropbox's UI methodology -- the green check-box tags on items that are synced, the renamed files for conflicts -- is very accessible. Also running as a daemon is very nice -- allow bandwidth caps like a bittorrent client, run whenever and don't think about it.<div>
<br></div><div>But I don't yet have enough experience to respond to Ben's questions re: failing safely and cross platform. I will say that the first time I tried dropbox (six months ago) when I stress tested the Mac OS client it got confused and failed to upload files that were present, and then start indexing a bunch of files which it shouldn't. Still hasn't managed to flagrantly delete or corrupt data like so many other synchronization products.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I won't hold too much of a grudge that the client OS integration was buggy (presumably they're focused on windows). And I haven't ran into any problems yet with the version I downloaded recently (0.6.567).</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ryan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Alan Schmitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org">alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jason Axelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bostonvaulter@gmail.com" target="_blank">bostonvaulter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>In the error handling department, I am not sure what it does if you</div>
make two separate changes to documents while offline.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It leaves you with two files, changing the file name of one of them.</div><div><br></div><div>I use dropbox for files I want to have available online and on my iPhone, and I've found that it works great for that.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Alan </div></font></div>
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