[OT] Skydrive

[Pascal Lehner]

Hi Pete,

I also used Google Drive for a while, but when starting to scan all my
stuff I actually switched to Wuala about 2 years ago (http://www.wuala.com/en/)
- I only have one small paper-based folder with diplomas and stuff by now.

Wuala offers about the same features including team options as the other
apps, but with one (for me) important feature: end to end encryption. So do
not loose your password! And since Wuala is a Swiss company based in
Switzerland (now owned by French LaCie), there actually is some laws
protecting my data from being opened without any court order by someone
else (apart from the fact that Wuala cannot access my files at all since
they are only stored encrypted). They offer clients for Win, Mac,
Linux, iOSand Android; some sort of web-based access is also possible,
but due to the
encryption it basically runs a install-free client when starting web-based.
Wuala offers backup, selective sync and lots of other stuff as well. The
only thing I sometimes miss when setting up a new computer is a
LAN-internal direct sync, since that would be quicker..

I spent quite some time finding the perfect solution for me back then and
am still absolutely happy with my selection. Support is also very quick.

Wuala might be a bit higher priced than other services, but depending on
the amount of data you actually have it is absolutely worth it.

Best regards,
Pascal

P.S. I know this sounded like a sales pitch, but I am just one happy user
without any ties to them.. Only thing I gain is if you chose to click this
link ( http://www.wuala.com/referral/KBH7MG6PG3GJHMBCBP6H ) instead of the
above when signing up since this will give me a gigabyte for free for a
year ;-)


On 18 July 2013 17:50, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I've been using Google Drive for quite a while but have started having a
> lot of problems with it resulting in complete re downloading of all my
> files on several occasions - that takes a couple of hours and Drive chews
> up 100% of my CPU while it's happening.
>
> Just installed Skydrive to see if it works any better.  All is good so far
> except that it seems to have the WIndows file naming restrictions in it - I
> got some files that couldn't be sync'd because they included characters
> like period or colon - not good for Mac users.
>
> I can probably live with that but wondering if anyone on the list uses
> Skydrive and would share their experiences with it.
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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