Dropbox questions

TheBigCheese · 29 Dec 2012 at 16:28

Hi everyone

I've been struggling to find an easy way of people sending me large files, stuff that's generally too big to email.

I think I've found the answer in a program called dropittome

As far as I can see users don't need to do anything more than put their email address in as a unique identifier and browse their machine for the file and upload it.

That would be absolutely perfect for my needs.

Has anyone used this service either for sending or receiving? What did you think of it?

However looking at the pricing of Dropbox it's quite expensive for a feature that would only be used occasionally.

I'm sure I've read about cheaper deals for Dropbox before now but I can't seem to find them, I was hoping they would have a sale on but they don't.

I know you can refer people to get more space but I told all my contacts about Crashplan in the black Friday sales so they are all using that!

I have a Crashplan account and it would be really useful if there was a feature like that on there but there doesn't seem to be, they only have the family feature but it's not private between the sender and receiver so that's no good for my needs.

Duke · 29 Dec 2012 at 16:50

What sort of size are we talking about here?

TheBigCheese · 29 Dec 2012 at 17:15

Well dropittome supports up to 75MB at the moment but I'm hoping that'll increase as time goes on.

I would think 5-50MB generally, or up to several hundred MB or more if they are video files.

What I'm thinking is the other day someone was trying to send me a batch of photos, they were having real trouble sending them and getting all confused. To compound the problems some were corrupted so they had to send other versions of them.

This involved lots of emailing back and forth trying to work out what had been sent correctly and what needed sending again which took up loads of time.

If they had a secure area they could upload the photos to me and see what they had uploaded, but not what others had uploaded that would be perfect.

Thinking about it...I'm not sure that dropittome allows for that... :confused:

KIA · 29 Dec 2012 at 17:37

Amazon Cloud drive. 5GB free space, 2GB max file size & fast transfer speeds.

Morfik · 29 Dec 2012 at 18:24

Google just implemented this into Drive / Gmail recently AFAIK. It uploads files to Drive and shares links in the emails. It's meant to work quite well but not tried it myself.

TheBigCheese · 29 Dec 2012 at 19:07

Ah that sounds interesting, thanks for the suggestions!

Would people need a Google or Amazon account for accessing those?

Would they be able to (for want of a better phrase) log into the cloud storage and see what they have uploaded there whilst not being able to see what other people have uploaded to me?

ajf · 29 Dec 2012 at 19:52

If the sender has Dropbox, they can put the file for you in their 'Public' folder and generate a unique URL for you to download it.
Part of the free account but does of course rely on each sender having their own account.