Comments on: Synchronizing files on multiple computers with Folder Share http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html Andrew Grant Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: tot http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html/comment-page-1#comment-19124 tot Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:08:41 +0000 http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html#comment-19124 Hi, PowerFolder is an nice open-source alternative to FolderShare. Homepage: http://www.powerfolder.com greeting, tot Hi,

PowerFolder is an nice open-source alternative to FolderShare.
Homepage: http://www.powerfolder.com

greeting,
tot

]]> By: My Own Pirate Radio » FolderShare is Good… Except for the Ghosts http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html/comment-page-1#comment-15747 My Own Pirate Radio » FolderShare is Good… Except for the Ghosts Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:56:09 +0000 http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html#comment-15747 [...] helpful article from someone else on how they use foldershare to manage their data. Discusses [...] [...] helpful article from someone else on how they use foldershare to manage their data. Discusses [...]

]]> By: Kirk http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html/comment-page-1#comment-1041 Kirk Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:33:19 +0000 http://www.andrewgrant.org/2006/09/18/file-synchronization.html#comment-1041 I like FolderShare very much, but I encountered a flaw that the developers acknowledged (in a private email to me) but have not fixed (as far as I know). The flaw is that the FolderShare service chokes as soon as it encounters a file with a long name inside a folder with a long name. I'm unsure exactly what the choke point is, but I'm not willing to rename our JPEGs and folders just to make them work with FolderShare. We put important details in the names of our JPEGs and folders, and we have a specific method for doing this. We have found over the years that this "explicit" naming of our JPEGs (and videos) and folders saves us a lot of time when we're trying to find a file. What's irritating is that FolderShare is a Microsoft company now, but the FolderShare service chokes on Windows-compatible file paths. I like FolderShare very much, but I encountered a flaw that the developers acknowledged (in a private email to me) but have not fixed (as far as I know). The flaw is that the FolderShare service chokes as soon as it encounters a file with a long name inside a folder with a long name. I’m unsure exactly what the choke point is, but I’m not willing to rename our JPEGs and folders just to make them work with FolderShare. We put important details in the names of our JPEGs and folders, and we have a specific method for doing this. We have found over the years that this “explicit” naming of our JPEGs (and videos) and folders saves us a lot of time when we’re trying to find a file. What’s irritating is that FolderShare is a Microsoft company now, but the FolderShare service chokes on Windows-compatible file paths.

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