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Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by zeus 1

zeus 1 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:44 +0000

Your link to Symbolic lnker is outdated – isnt it?

Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:07:41 +0000

Chris,
I know this is an old post, but I just found it and boy am I glad I did! I just set it up, and Dropbox is merrily syncing between 3 Macs right now. So far it looks great, but I’m curious to see how it deals with versioning when stressed.

I was carrying around a portable harddrive and for over a year, I have been chronosyncing its brains out on my multiple machines. (Chronosync is great program, by the way). After getting a new notebook and highspeed DSL, I wanted to sync into the cloud. I wasted the last few days trying trying to replicate this with Amazon S3; boy that was a mess. I looked into MobileMe, but the lack of security on data transfer turned me off. Finally I went with the 50GB Dropbox (which is Amazon S3 anyway and almost as cheap), and luckily found your page right away.

Thanks for the great post!

Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by Herbien

Herbien — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:40:40 +0000

Thanks for your reply, Chris. Works fine. I will use your tip but I won’t say goodbye to Chronosync, though. A combination of both should be fine!

Keep it up!

JPH

Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:19:27 +0000

If you are trying to sync two folders, you have to create a symbolic link for each folder on both computers. Name both symlinks the same.

While both computers are not connected to Dropbox, drop each symbolic link into your Dropbox folder in the same place on respective computer (e.g. ~/User/Dropbox/symlinkname.) When you connect both computers, since the symlinks are called the same thing, both folders that the symlinks points to will by synced.

Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by Herbien

Herbien — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:46:40 +0000

Hi Sir,

“…make sure you name all of the newly created Symbolic Links the same.”

“…On each computer, move the newly created Symbolic Links to the Dropbox folder.”

How can you have 2 files by the same name in the same folder? Am I missing something?

Comment on Apple iPad: Who Is This For? by Boyd

Boyd — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:21:30 +0000

Under your sales people section. It doesn’t have HD connection for presentations. If I were to buy something for presenting on the go I’d definitely make sure it was up to par with other portable devises, such as laptops.

Comment on Apple iPad: Who Is This For? by Lawerance Oak

Lawerance Oak — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:32:15 +0000

Take your hater aid today and tore down your Apple Fan Boy Flag. I feel for you and your strong opinion on this. I think you are missing what this is which might bring more insight to why you might want this. This is a show stopper and I use that loosely because that is what it is.

This is for showing things. Showing your photos to people that are over, yes we can do on iPhone,iPod Touch and whatever else. But, I have this happen to me all the time, no one wants to sit down on my computer and view photos. They want them in their hands or on a TV. Bigger is better in this situation.

Second, image waking up in the morning sitting down for breakfast without going over to your computer and check Facebook, read a digital version of the news paper, check emails. These are all fast things to do and yeah you can do on your computer but I think having the device in your hand at a table makes alot more sense then always walking over to a computer.

Third and this hits home for meh. I spend 1-1.5hrs a day on a bus. I love watching videos on my ipod and listening to music, but I crave more. I want to surfer the web, check some RSS feeds, read some, watch something. I’m limited to what is already on my ipod or I have in my backpack. The ability to on the fly get this content, well that opens a lot of windows for meh.

This is a good write up for someone that has everything, but for us normal people this is a good get.

Comment on Google Voice 406 Numbers: Demystified! by Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:58:04 +0000

It’s too bad that one can’t get a 406 number for a landline, or get a 406 number on demand through the Google Contacts manager. Long-distance phone charges also make calling 406 numbers impractical from home and office phones. But hey, they’re still useful!

Comment on Google Voice 406 Numbers: Demystified! by Amin

Amin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:36:20 +0000

Great explanation, I always had a hard time explaining this. Now I will just point people here. Thanks!

Comment on Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox by Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:10:15 +0000

Great post.

I have all my files in a folder on a windows server and would like to set up a share with my macbook via dropbox.

Any idea if this would work?

Thanks,

Neil