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By: Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:27:48 +0000

Hi Rowan,

Thanks for your feedback. Skydrive are likely setting response headers their side to force the download, or the browser you are using doesn’t have the plugin for Adobe installed. I’m guessing its the former rather than the latter though. Personally I’m all in favour of it forcing the download – the browser plugins typically slow my machine to a halt, and there’s never really a warning that the file you are about to open is a PDF if you click it by accident, but then its a preference thing really.

I hadn’t come across that with Dropbox, but sounds like a pretty big gotcha.

Thanks again for your thoughts,

Paul

By: Rowan

Rowan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:30:53 +0000

A comment about Skydrive. It seems great for Microsoft Office docs, but if you share PDF files they are a real pain to open. There doesn’t seem to be any way for users to view these other than downloading them to their computer first. Why they can’t just open them in your browser when you clik on them like every other website in the world, I’ve no idea.

Rowan

By: Rowan

Rowan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:28:01 +0000

Just be aware that Dropbox doesn’t currently support sharing of files in a read-only mode. If you’ve given anyone permission to see your files, they can just hit the delete key on the whole folder and Bam they’ve gone, from your computer too, and everyone else’s whose sharing. Users have been clamouring for 2 years for this to be fixed but so far no news from the organisers of if or when this will be done.

Rowan

By: Brett Widmann

Brett Widmann — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:10:07 +0000

This is a great article. I like looking all these reviews before trying something myself. Thanks for posting.

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By: Goose

Goose — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:54:57 +0000

These products all offer great services. I would always recommend Mozy, but it just all comes down to what best fits your needs. It’s always a smart thing to purchase online backup for your files, they are reliable and in time of a computer crash you can be relived. Thank you for posting this up, it was very informative.

By: ram

ram — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:31:58 +0000

You forgot Skydrive.live.com which has almost 25GB space for free.