Well, are you changing all 50 megs of files every day? I basically only change a few spreadsheets on a regular basis...sheets for my checking, savings, etc accounts, and some other finances. Those update in a minute or two when I save them. I guess the question for me regarding the AUTOMATIC syncing of the local and network iDisk is this: if you screw something up on your local iDisk, like accidentally deleting or corrupting an important file, it will immediately propagate to the server. But if it's set to manual update, then you're less likely to update at all. Michael On Sep 30, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Jim Freeman wrote: > So I allocated more storage to iDisk - it took me a while to figure > out how. And I proceed to to back up a folder with 50 megs of Word and > PowerPoint files. It took forever. How useful can this service be when > it's sooo sloooow?