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[schild]

I got in today. Have 10 invites. If anyone wants one, post in the thread, will send to email address on file.
My invites are gone, but other people might have some now. Who knows. So keep posting, I guess.

I think Ookii should have some also.

Edit: Only established members are going to get invites in light of the added weight of having superior free accounts when it goes live.

[photek]

Looks like a user friendly CVS / SVN repository.

[Sauced]

Or a gussied-up version of WebDAV.  I'll take an invite, would love to play around with it.

[Oban]

.mac ?

[schild]

Not quite .mac. It's really streamlined, but the way they've designed it basically says: This has no reason to exist if it ever costs money.

[schild]

# After the Beta period, is Dropbox going to continue to be free to use?

We haven't fully determined a pricing structure yet, but the high level plan at this point is:

    * Free accounts (on the order of 1GB of space)
    * Paid accounts (likely different tiers of space allotment)
    * Beta users will keep their accounts (with more storage than the free accounts) after launch



Ok, I'll use it at live.

[tazelbain]

looks more filesharing with backups than a VCS.

[caladein]

If you've got any invites left, I'd be up to play around with this.

[Nija]

Yeah, hook me up if you would. I like these sort of things.

[Rasix]

Sure.  I'll take one.

[schild]

Alright. 3 left.

[schild]

tee-hee

http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/39720/1/smilies?h=13a8e1

[K9]

tee-hee

http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/39720/1/smilies?h=13a8e1

The bottom right one is creeping me the fuck out.

[Samwise]

That actually looks pretty good.  Me too plz?

[Prospero]

Ooh, I'll take one if you have one left. Looks snazzy.

[schild]

1 left.

[Krakrok]

I like the synced "shared" folder it has and the auto photos folder seems cool. Google Docs share works the same way for limited file types (I think). Here's a list of all of the free online storage sites.

[Lantyssa]

I'd be interested in trying this.

[schild]

My invites are gone, but other people might have some now. Who knows. So keep posting, I guess.

[Lantyssa]

Geezus that was fast, Schild.  I had the invite before my other browser window finished loading.

Thanks!

[sigil]

I'd like to give this a shot, but might be considered borderline given my postcount.

[ClydeJr]

Looks interesting. If anyone has any invites left, I'd like one.

[Samwise]

Testing:

[squirrel]

I don't know anything about this but between Apples (misguided IMO) Mobile ME and the upgraded Google Docs (offline client, group permissions) I can't see how a service like this can get critical mass.

EDIT: Unless the revision control and diff/merge tools are super skookum and way easier to use than SVN. Google docs has some collaboration tools now but I can see that being useful.

[Samwise]

There doesn't seem to be any merging to speak of, but the revision control is about as easy as it gets, and it does detect conflicts (it just alerts you that your change conflicted with what was there and stores it as an extra "conflicting" revision that you can try to deal with manually).

I don't think it's any sort of replacement for a real version control tool, but for nontechnical people looking for a place to store pictures and whatnot it seems pretty decent.

[squirrel]

There doesn't seem to be any merging to speak of, but the revision control is about as easy as it gets, and it does detect conflicts (it just alerts you that your change conflicted with what was there and stores it as an extra "conflicting" revision that you can try to deal with manually).

I don't think it's any sort of replacement for a real version control tool, but for nontechnical people looking for a place to store pictures and whatnot it seems pretty decent.

Hmmm. Think I'd bank on Google Docs/Google Sites then. Their new stuff is pretty cool, particularly the new offline client. Never mind, I'm just derailing - carry on!

[Prospero]

I see this as more of a competitor to Microsoft's Life Foldershare thing. It's main job is to keep your files synced across multiple machines. The sharing stuff is just gravy. I don't think Google has any solution for general file storage currently, which honestly I find somewhat shocking because cloud storage is definitely "the coming thing." For years I've used Google Pages as my online file storage mechanism, which is kludgy at best.

[NiX]

I'd like one if anyone has one.

[Samwise]

I've got a few to hand out.  I can't see people's emails in their profiles, though, so the first 5 to PM me with email addresses get an invite.  Gogogo!

[Soukyan]

This is a great service. I've been testing it for a couple of months now. It works on PC/Mac which is part of what sold me, but the CVS-style features and the easy integration into Explorer/Finder are what sealed the deal.

One note about the integration is that dragging and dropping a file into the Dropbox folder will perform a "move" on it since the OS sees it as another directory. It works this way on both PC and Mac, so if you want to keep a copy elsewhere locally for some reason, just remember to copy instead.

In any case, I have 5 invites I am willing to part with. PM me with your e-mail address if you would like one.

[schild]

I'm gonna set up a few of these, no doubt.



Testing.

[schild]

Hmmm. Gonna set up a FRAPS dropbox. And start having my screenshots go directly to the dropbox directory and just change it before I start playing a game. Useful++!

[schild]

snap

i just realized, since you can't pick the install directory, you can't have more than one account on a machine.

[photek]

This is a great service. I've been testing it for a couple of months now. It works on PC/Mac which is part of what sold me, but the CVS-style features and the easy integration into Explorer/Finder are what sealed the deal.

One note about the integration is that dragging and dropping a file into the Dropbox folder will perform a "move" on it since the OS sees it as another directory. It works this way on both PC and Mac, so if you want to keep a copy elsewhere locally for some reason, just remember to copy instead.

In any case, I have 5 invites I am willing to part with. PM me with your e-mail address if you would like one.

On second thought it actually sounds useful. I'd like one please.

Code:

neocore at gmail dot com

[schild]

hi kishore,

we'll be adding a way to do this; in the meantime, if you're feeling adventurous and know your way around the registry (i assume you're on windows), you can do the following:

1) close Dropbox
2) go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Evenflow Software\Dropbox

and change "DropboxPath" to your desired location

3) (optionally) move your existing Dropbox folder to that new path
4) restart Dropbox, and it will either immediately be in sync, or if you didn't move your Dropbox folder, it will let you re-link your account and will download all your files.

if you prefer, you can also just sit tight and we'll add a simpler way to do this in the next month or two.

Rock on.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND That's not where it is in vista. Fucky.