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# Sunday, September 04, 2005

FolderShare

I was going to write a review of FolderShare, but all I was able to mutter was my excitement about one small feature, the MSN Desktop Search Integration. Well, Dennis Cheung managed to write a review already and to be honest, there is nothing more to say.

Since then Om Malik and Walt Mossberg have written glowing reviews of the product.

I really can’t add much here except to say that I continue to be amazed at this little gem. “It just works”.

I’m thinking of buying my parents the Iomega Network drive with built in FolderShare support. My parents don’t understand backup, and this is an easy way to provide them some form of redundancy. Most Iomega drives seem to support FolderShare, although it’s unclear what “support” means. I’m particularly interested in their 160GB Network Drive since it runs FolderShare natively.

FolderShare has some other great uses.

  1. I can sent my family and friends my photos w/o any intermediate services
  2. When traveling I can have offiste backup from my hotel room via laptop + internet
  3. My wife and I can share files between our laptops.

 

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:53:21 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I found the Foldershare setup to be confusing. It's not terrible, but I think it could be easier.
mike
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