Murray Richards
Posts: 1
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
I did some work for an IT company a few months ago and their lawyer saw I was using Dropbox, his comment was that I "obviously haven't read the terms and conditions of Dropbox use, unless I don't care about any images stored on Dropbox being able to be used by them for any commercial purpose without compensation..."
I didn't use Dropbox often, but I have stopped using it. Next time I go to use it, I might read their terms of use instead of just clicking <Accept>...
Dropbox to share project work with clients, etc. It's very good for that but has limited space.
I use Sugarsync for syncing multiple computers. This syncs the entire documents directory. It keeps me having the same files, no matter what computer I am on.
I use carbonite as off-site backup. It just sits there and doesn't bother me.
Dropbox. I didn't have to do much research, it just worked. GDrive was touchier and it didn't work as smoothly as I wanted without reading about it. SugarSync surprised me and tried to backup more files than I intended.
I use Dropbox, never had a problem. Started using on recommendation from a friend, who had been using it for a while. Have no experience of the others.
Veit Photo
Posts: 563
London, England, United Kingdom
I use Dropbox. About 2/3 of my clients (Mac users mostly) have problems downloading their photos. But then I Zip them into folders and it's never clear if it's the compression or Dropbox that's the problem.
rdf_photography
Posts: 32
Washington, District of Columbia, US
Dropbox is great. The only incovenient is that you need to put everything in a specific folder.
So in most cases Dropbox is good enough, but more sopefic things other serices could be better. It also depends on what you want to do with this cloud storage.
What would you use the cloud service for?
How much space are you going to need?
What devices other the computer you need to connect?
Do you care about _a_Lot_ about privacy and security?
Murray Richards wrote: I did some work for an IT company a few months ago and their lawyer saw I was using Dropbox, his comment was that I "obviously haven't read the terms and conditions of Dropbox use, unless I don't care about any images stored on Dropbox being able to be used by them for any commercial purpose without compensation..."
I didn't use Dropbox often, but I have stopped using it. Next time I go to use it, I might read their terms of use instead of just clicking <Accept>...
No idea what the lawyer was referring to, but I can't find anything stating what he claims on any of the tabs here:
Dropbox mostly to share ideas to clients/models and to send them their photos after the shoot.
I use Box for more personal storage; as it came free when I purchased the HP Touchpad a few years ago...
What's nice about dropbox (if it still has the same special) is that whomever you share dropbox and they download/install dropbox onto their computer, you'll receive 250mbs free towards your own storage. When you register dropbox for free, you start with 2GB. Now I have 20GB of storage for dropbox from sharing. Box I have 50GB as well, being a special with HP.
Dropbox is easier but both definitely do the job. All in which is free, no monthly/yearly pay.