Re:DVCS-Autosync: A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git
by nantes on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @03:30PM
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I think one of the reasons I have never considered using Dropbox for media storage is that, given three teenage daughters, I don't think I could afford a big enough Dropbox account to store all of the media we consume and generate.
Also, one of my favorite applications of Dropbox is having all of our important documents in one central location (whether this is a wise move or not... ). This makes accessing documents on the fly from my iPhone a breeze. Having media files in there as well, would, I think destroy my antique iPhone 3G!
You are right on the money about the background uploading though.
Re:DVCS-Autosync: A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git
by pronoiac on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @06:26PM
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Having media files in there as well, would, I think destroy my antique iPhone 3G!
The iPhone app doesn't sync everything - it will download (and separately, cache) only the files you request.
Media storage is, I believe, a common Dropbox use case. And Dropbox's transparent uploads, which seem to automatically detect and throttle when I am using bandwidth, are a great feature that I haven't seen in any open-source competitor.