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If there is cooperation with another client who has the file you could just get the file from them in the first place.
by jgeralnik 14y ago
If there is cooperation with another client who has the file you could just get the file from them in the first place.
- 0x0 14y agoPerhaps the bandwidth between (dropbox + all your syncing devices) is greater than what the conspiring client can provide, so such a scheme may still be beneficial.
- nilved 14y agoI think they could just share the folder with you on Dropbox, allowing you to download it from there.
- sp332 14y agoYou don't need to "get" the file from anyone, you just need convince Dropbox to mark your account as having that file.
- jgeralnik 14y agoMaybe I'm missing something. What possible purpose (other than getting the file) could there be to convincing Dropbox that you have a file?
- sp332 14y agoBy "get" I just meant download directly, which could be slow and eat a lot of bandwidth. And then if you actually want that file in your Dropbox, you'd eat even more bandwidth doing the upload again. But syncing once from Dropbox is faster than downloading from someone else and then uploading to Dropbox and then waiting for your other computers to sync. And since you don't have to get the file from the original sharer, they don't have to have enough bandwidth to go around, just let Dropbox handle the copying.
- rhizome 14y agoOther than? "Having files" is the entire point of Dropbox.
- jgeralnik 14y ago>> You don't need to "get" the file from anyone, you just need convince Dropbox to mark your account as having that file. That post made it sound like there was a purpose to having the file in dropbox other than getting it.