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"They provide a user friendly synchronization service for files between all your devices." .... And users! For a small company who has a geographically dispe
by bradleyland 15y ago
"They provide a user friendly synchronization service for files between all your devices."
....
And users!
For a small company who has a geographically dispersed user population, Dropbox is a great tool. The key is the dead simple setup and operation.
1) Install software
2) Use tool
Sharing folders is about three clicks from logging in to the website, and you can get there directly through shell (Explorer, Finder) integration in both PC and Mac.
- jorangreef 15y agoI take it you already have the "install software" and "use tool" steps out of the way, would you be interested in a web-based file-system, with tagging organization, as opposed to folder organization?
- ori_b 15y agoNo. I just want a folder that syncs.
- bradleyland 15y agoNot particularly. My users don't understand it. Google Apps has been fighting this for some time in both Gmail and Google Docs. Users are used to folders, but Google uses tags and collections. They used to call collections (Google Docs) folders, but the fact that a document could exist in two 'folders' confused the hell out of my users. As it turns out, the benefits of a tagging based approach don't pay out nearly as much as the user training and maintenance costs.
- brlewis 15y agoThat's (Explorer, Finder, Nautilus) in (Windows, Mac, Linux)