Comments on: SugarSync: Fresh Take on Synchronization

By: sem

sem — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:44:32 +0000

Sounds like a real interesting app. My one concern as it seems to be for many other posters as well is not being compatible with Linux. That is a large portion of the market these days and you guys are completely missing that piece. I am sure in the future you will work out the kinks.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:07:33 +0000

Use this referral on a Free 2Gb account and get another 0.5GB free – hope that helps

https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=fcmhetfa3g3ob

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:09:57 +0000

I just looked at hyperoffice – it is insanely expensive as compared to SugarSync. It would cost almost $500 a year and still not have enough storage space to backup my PST file – it’s 500MB for that price. Sugarsync gives you over 100 *GB* of storage for less than that price. It’s clearly a completely different category. In fact, it’s what we use to backup development efforts. Different products for different purposes.

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:52:34 +0000

There are benefits. 1 – convenience of not having to find another program to sync with some SSD or thumb drive. 2 – backups done automatically in the background (although it is very process heavy at times) 3 – Easy point and click and done. 4 – Off site storage so taht in case your thumb drive is lost or stolen there is all your data in a safe facility.

By: Remote access software

Remote access software — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:26:31 +0000

What if I delete a file by mistake or make some bad edits? Previously I had backups in other media that I could use but these are now all destroyed. Also do we really need this application? Why dont you get a 4 gig thumb drive and use it everywhere? For that matter you could even use a 160Gig solid state drive – once the price drops to a few bucks soon. Lastly you could use remote acess software such as: ProxyNetworks, Bomgar or GotomyPC.

I personally want to control how files are copied myself, but thats me.

Does it work in Linux?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:55:10 +0000

in the times that everybody is moving towards integrated solutions, i wonder how anybody would be satisfied with JUST file synching and access. for example HyperOffice allows:- - file storage, synch, AND sharing and collaboration (versioning, notifications, access permissions, backups) across devices (Mac, PC, iphone, blackberry, windows mobile) -synching AND sharing of mail, contacts, tasks and calendars across the above mentioned devices. -allows you to set up Outlook accounts without MS Exchange ( exchange alternative ) AND you can access, share and synch Outlook mail, contacts, tasks, calendars across the above devices. -Includes an intranet/extranet page publisher -includes forums, polls, chat, billing/expense application, unified login -you can integrate their web conferencing solution HyperMeeting with HyperOffice if you like. if you can get all that at one place......WHY SETTLE FOR LESS???

By: Laura Roeder

Laura Roeder — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:15:34 +0000

I thought I understood how sugarsync worked until they deleted all my uploaded files with no warning. No response to my ticket and no email or phone number provided. Guess I have to find another option.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:29 +0000

By the way SugarSync just launched an iPhone app. I am downloading it as we speak..

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:03:35 +0000

SugarSync does not use SyncML. SyncML is very network inefficient and it only handles Contactcs and Caledar. SugarSync uses a much more powerful general purpose sync engine/algorithms that can deal with any data type and it has to be data/network efficient

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:39:38 +0000

What about DataCase on the iPhone?

By: Saurabh Kaushik, PMP

Saurabh Kaushik, PMP — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:13:45 +0000

Definitely it is good service. I have few comments on it.
* As a developer, I would like to know more about kind a technology they use in it. Is it SyncML?
* As a user, I would like to go only with one service which can fill all my need of syncing everything from bookmark, contact, calender to files. Will they expand into it?
* As blogger, I would say Funambol is a closure solution in this area. But they lack of File Syncing service. Will these two solution (Funambol and SugarSync) come together under one umbrella?

By: PB

PB — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:56:08 +0000

SugarSync also offers online backup, remote web access, mobile sync, a way to sync files without physically replicating it everywhere (Lite Sync).

Here’s David Pogue’s review from the NY Times today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html

By: Zia

Zia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:59:25 +0000

Sugarsync is good but not as good as FolderShare. The only biggest plus of Sugarsync is its mobile interface that FolderShare lacks/