[OT] Skydrive

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Pascal,
Just looked at Wuala in more detail and see that it does offer 5gigs free
so might be of interest.  I'll use the link you gave me if I download it!

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Pascal Lehner <tate83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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