Mesh or Groove or FolderShare or GetDropBox
I want to share files without thinking about it between my home machine, my work machine, and my laptop. Currently I’m using an external hard drive. This drive kind of acts as a 320GB backup / keep things you want for all machines on / utility drive.
Two Goals.
#1 There are a certain set of files and folders that I want synchronized.
#2 Be able to access files online.
I have Microsoft Office Groove installed - but I don’t think I know how to use it, because it’s not working. I think groove is some sort of "larger than life" application that if all I’m doing is syncing files, I’m doing it the hard way. So hard that it’s not even working.
Folder Share seems dead - is it? Are you still using it? I had it installed once but somewhere along the line I stopped using it and I’m not sure why.
(which I have an account for) seems to do the same trick. One nice thing about GetDropBox is that you can right-click on any file and get a publicly addressable URL for sharing. This makes it really easy to send a downloaded file link to someone. One thing I don’t like about GetDropBox is that you have to have your files nested under the singular drop box folder. I need to share files and folders that are scattered throughout my machine.
I suppose that this creates an interesting mapping issue when you’re sharing data across multiple machines and potentially sharing some folders with external parties. But that’s the problem and the solution I’m looking for. I’m sure there are 100’s or even 1000’s of other solutions to this problem.
If you’re using one of my four known potential solutions, can you give me some details to why you made that decision? This should help me with a little direction.
Please leave comments.
Thank you!
P.S. I’m still using voice dictation for my blog posts 
[UPDATE] Sept 24, 2008
I renamed the DropBox to (what I originally meant) to GetDropBox
