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And yet we still can't share files. I'm serous, we can't. Not out of the box, not on any of the common OSes. Uhm, what? Does one click on "file sharing" in th

• sachinag 17y ago
  I will say that technically, that option is there, but in my experience, it very rarely works as well as it should. We've just reverted to using Dropbox.
• GHFigs 17y ago
  That counts as "not terrible", but is still more involved and less reliable and less flexible than Dropbox for the common case.
• potatolicious 17y ago
  That's what I meant when I said less shitty - but still shitty. More often than not, when I want to share a file with someone, I want to share a file, not the whole folder, and certainly not a specific folder. With OSX's file sharing you have to manually drag your file into the shared folder (assuming you've enabled it) - and unless you want anyone to be able to access it willy-nilly, you're going to have to password it (possibly resulting in creating a new account on your machine). Sound fun yet? At least it beats Windows - Windows file sharing is equally convoluted, and on top of it will fail to connect in almost every single networking environment I've ever tried it in. So on top of being hard to use, it just doesn't WORK. The solution is so convoluted, and fits the standard use case so poorly, that it may as well not exist at all. IMHO the bar to beat is the memory stick - if I can share a file with someone in the room for less effort than copying it onto a USB stick, we've won.