Syncplicity opens up its Mac beta

I use sugar sync, it works so well and so fast that I don't even think about it, and the fact that they have an iPhone app as well means that I am never out of touch with my data!

Well worth the small fee that I pay for it every year.

I use JungleDisk. $20 for the desktop client, and then $0.15/month per GB of online storage hosted by amazon. There is also a data transfer charge of $0.10/GB upload and $0.17/GB download. Overall though, I usually pay only about $0.20/month. And I can keep the app on a thumb drive so that my files can be accessed anywhere (even from a Win or Linux PC).

I've not tried the service, but their logo looks like it's flushing my data down the drain...

I've been using SugarSync - $25 for 10GB - syncing 5 pcs, two macs and my iphone, works seamlessly. Truly easy to use, good price, great product. Very satisfied customer.....

Though Live Mesh is good the Mac client is horrible, always being present when you Apple+Tab, not being able to run solely out of the task bar and the UI is too un-Leopardy to feel good to me.

Dropbox is good but I hate the manual sync part, not intelligent enough for me, I need to set up and forget.

MobileMe, don't get me started...

SyncPlicity: absolutely lovely. Has a decent Mac client that runs nicely out of the task bar and keeps folders fast and painlessly in sync, set it up once to to synchronize your Documents folder and you're done.
The only thing I find regrettable for now is that when I sync my Documents folder from my Mac it appears as a separate Documents folder in the online browser instead of taking over the one already there...

A small tip if you run Office 2004/2008 and _don't_ want to have the Microsoft User Data folder synced located in your Documents folder:
mv ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Data
ln -s ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/User Data/ ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data

That will move the Microsoft User Data folder to where it should have been stored to begin with and create a symlink in your Documents folder to prevent Office 200x from crying in a corner. The advantage of it is that SyncPlicity and Live Mesh don't follow the symlinks and won't synchronize the data, which suits me just fine.

I love dropbox and the others are worthy competitors, but I believe a little company called Google may steal the market later this year with "GDrive" (or whatever they decide to call it).

ZumoDrive is amazing. The lack of the ability to use syncplicity as a local drive kills it for me, though it has a great web interface. The only problem with ZumoDrive as it stands right now is its pricing structure. With only 1gb for free and incremental GBs at $2.99/3-4gb it gets pricey pretty quick if you want to store all your iTunes music/video/pictures in the "cloud"

I use and love Dropbox to sync files between my work and home macs. I recommend anyone who works on projects at home.

I actually like Live Mesh. And I usually hate M$ products...

- no need to sign up for a Live email account (I used my gmail address as a login)
- works on a Mac
- 5GB
- syncs as necessary and keeps a detailed changelog
- good web interface with file access (from anywhere)
- free!