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It's most definitely a more easily understood mental model. I also run Live Mesh to sync my music between work/home, because it has the neat feature of non-ser
by Splines 15y ago
It's most definitely a more easily understood mental model.
I also run Live Mesh to sync my music between work/home, because it has the neat feature of non-server syncing (it allows you to sync an arbitrary amount of data, but only between two client PCs, no server storage).
However, an odd feature in Live Mesh is the capability to add an already-syncing folder to an existing machine in the group. There's no UI to allow you pick where on the remote PC you want the data to end up, so it's possible to push a bunch of data to a drive that you didn't want to.
Plus, moving this data is also weird:
- Stop syncing the folder
- Move the folder
- Ask to sync the folder, and point to the new location
There's a certain level of "is this going to work?" going on in your head when you complete that last step. I'm guessing this sort of problem exists in both Live Mesh and Dropbox, although with the single-folder paradigm in dropbox, this scenario probably doesn't happen that often.
- w1ntermute 15y ago> It's most definitely a more easily understood mental model. That doesn't mean they shouldn't offer an alternative for those would prefer to sync specific folders. I've ended up simulating this behavior by using symlinks, but that's a real hacky solution and still doesn't solve the problem of selective syncing.
- nchlswu 15y agoThey definitely realize that they have to offer some sort of solution, hence his "stay tuned." It was a big UX and strategy choice to offer the a one folder dropbox and it paid off. Now's when they can roll out what people want.
- Groxx 15y agoThey do. Run the betas, you can change the folder's location and run "selective sync" - just set it to C: and turn everything off that you don't want to save.
- w1ntermute 15y agoI'm running the experimental version on Linux, and I see that they do have a selective sync option. But I don't see how to specify a generic folder to be synced. All I can do is change the location of the "Dropbox" folder.