A way of using my ftp space like dropbox?

alexx

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I have about 10gb's of space on a server and don't really use it that well - is there a way to make my own kind of dropbox? does such an application exist?

The key features being:

no login
synced folder
drag and drop
can pause the sync at anytime
 
Erm, it's something like this -

Go to My Computer
In the top 'address' bar type in your ftp address.
Login.
Find/make a folder.
Copy the folder location.
Make a shortcut on your desktop with the folder location as the shortcut link.

You should now have a 'drag n drop' ftp folder on your desktop.



Disclaimer.
This is on windows XP. I'm trying to remember how someone did it for me on my computer about a month ago.
 
You can add an FTP account as a Network Location in my computer. That's what I've done, it's very simple. Just right click in Computer and "Add network location" then just fill in your FTP details.

Gives you this:

 
thanks guys is there any need for those programs if I can just map my ftp like asim said? I've done that now and it seems good - would it tell me if a file didnt sync properly tho?
 
Doing it the way asim said will put your files onto the FTP server, and not locally.

Dropbox etc stores the files locally, and then synchronises them to a server, and automatically updates the files stored locally on another computer.
 
Confused said:
Doing it the way asim said will put your files onto the FTP server, and not locally.

Dropbox etc stores the files locally, and then synchronises them to a server, and automatically updates the files stored locally on another computer.
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You could quite easily set up a robocopy script to monitor a local folder and copy that up to the mapped FTP folder though.

Or indeed use windows sync center.
 
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