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This project is useless if they don't figure out a way to serve files without both machines being turned on, there is also the problem of syncing with multiple

This project is useless if they don't figure out a way to serve files without both machines being turned on, there is also the problem of syncing with multiple clients beside that. I see two key use cases that could cause trouble: 1)a co-worker turned his computer off and went home from work, the syncing couldn't complete even if only a single doc was left 2)Because there is no central server if all of my coworkers in a distributed team sync with my new shared folder at the same time, it is required that I own a connection capable of supporting that kind of traffic, because it would be almost the same as streaming a video to multiple users, not to mention that I would probably have to avoid to browse the web for pretty much anything else in the meanwhile.

Floegipoky 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at with 1- I don't think any service ever can transfer files to a machine that isn't on. As soon as the co-worker shows up on Monday, the transfer will finish. As far as 2 is concerned though, that is not the case. Don't forget, it's built on top of BT. As each piece of the file gets transferred to other clients by the original machine, the other clients will be able to send those pieces out too. In theory it will be faster than a transfer from a central server.
- mikemoka 14y ago
  1-Actually Dropbox lets everyone do just that, I can access the shared folder via the dropbox website whenever I want, download files in there and even access the old or deleted versions..something I see very unlikely in this case for now
  - ptman 14y ago
    Dropbox has servers running all the time.
    - BHSPitMonkey 14y ago
      What they're saying is that this is an important advantage that BT Sync lacks.
  - Floegipoky 14y ago
    Oh I see what you're saying. Bottom line, there needs to be at least 1 copy of each piece available to pull. It also definitely lacks a lot of the features that Dropbox provides on top of file syncing.

Floegipoky 14y ago

I'm not sure what you're getting at with 1- I don't think any service ever can transfer files to a machine that isn't on. As soon as the co-worker shows up on Monday, the transfer will finish. As far as 2 is concerned though, that is not the case. Don't forget, it's built on top of BT. As each piece of the file gets transferred to other clients by the original machine, the other clients will be able to send those pieces out too. In theory it will be faster than a transfer from a central server.

mikemoka 14y ago
1-Actually Dropbox lets everyone do just that, I can access the shared folder via the dropbox website whenever I want, download files in there and even access the old or deleted versions..something I see very unlikely in this case for now
- ptman 14y ago
  Dropbox has servers running all the time.
  - BHSPitMonkey 14y ago
    What they're saying is that this is an important advantage that BT Sync lacks.
- Floegipoky 14y ago
  Oh I see what you're saying. Bottom line, there needs to be at least 1 copy of each piece available to pull. It also definitely lacks a lot of the features that Dropbox provides on top of file syncing.