[X4U] iDisk size problem

[Michael Elliott]

Hi Judi,

I was one that actually DID renew, but on the last day after Apple 
finally upped the iDisk limit.  I agree, the timing could not have been 
accidental.  I'd bet that they saw a huge drop in their renewals from 
people like us who signed on to .Mac at the beginning, and whos 
subscriptions were running out at the end of September.

I tend to use iDisk for multiple small files; I don't use my computer 
much professionally, and rarely need access to files that are very 
large AND updated so frequently that I can't sync folders via Airport.

But which service do YOU use for offline backup, out of curiosity?

Michael


On Oct 03, 2004, at 9:12 AM, Judi Sohn wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 09:54:11 -0400, Art Amolsch <aamolsch at shentel.net> 
> wrote:
>> If you have a Google e-mail account, you can
>> e-mail 1Gb worth of files to yourself and leave
>> them there. Or, you can use something like Intranets
>> <http://intranets.com>, which is more expensive
>> than .mac but comes with some features that
>> .mac doesn't. That's what we use within our
>> firm to get everyone on the same page.
>>
>
> There are a ton of these offline backup/file sharing/server things out
> there that are faster and a better deal than .Mac. The main reason to
> go with .Mac is if you want a suite of different things (email, file
> sharing, backup, syncing, etc.) and your needs in any one area are
> modest. Does a lot of things, none particularly well.
>
> But to be fair, GMail is not a good option for this (except that it's
> free, of course) because I think you are limited by the file size. If
> you have a lot of small files it's fine, but I don't think you can
> send more than 10MB in any one message. I think. Never tried it. There
> may be a 3rd party thing that gets around that.
>
> -- 
> Judi Sohn, judi at momathome.com
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