http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive
Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the primary client to only sync a portion of your account. Then use ExpanDrive to offload the rest and access it as needed.
Does expand drive has the ability to:
- set the a file password (system level/folder level/file level)
- every file uploaded gets encrypted first with the appropriate password
- files downloaded get decrypted on arrival
?
In this way the space provider does not have access to my unencrypted files, and the password never left my machine
Basically I'm interested in reading the privacy policy because I didn't like that the software asked for my name/email to start the trial, and the license only had reverse engineering restrictions and a warranty waiver.
Aside from that, Expandrive looks amazing and like it will solve a great many problems.
We never capture/store any credentials. Everything stays on your client machine.
That said, I just bought a copy with lifetime upgrades for use with OneDrive now that Bitcasa has screwed me over.
P.S. a post in the Bitcasa forums with a discount code or something might give you some good advertising.
Quite buggy, it reminds me why I stopped using it. Shameless plug, sorry!
We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found:
- There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item limit. (files or directories) There's ways to get around this by creating additional collections, but that's hard and has its own limitations and issues. - Individual files had a 2GB size limit. - Those combined to mean that the "1TB" space limit was meaningless.
Note: "One Drive" and "One Drive for Business" are totally different. The stuff connected to "Office 365" is the business stuff and it's really some friendlier front-ends on some kind of Cloud SharePoint thing...
- OneDrive now supports 10GB files.[2]
- I am not certain but from what I know. The 20,000 limit is a suggested limit which isn't imposed. One can upload more than 20,000 files but above 20,000 files there is some sync issue with the present sync tool.
[2]https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
The OneDrive 2GB filesize limit has apparently been lifted & increased to 10GB per file: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2605912/onedrive-now-allows-f...
From the link: "We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers." I'm using Office 365 University and it definitely is the normal "One Drive" (just offers more space for it). The branding here seems a bit confused.
In this OneDrive has two different services, you can use both as a Office 365 user. What you are using is the personal service for OneDrive which is on the onedrive website, the other is the sharepoint online for teams which is used for collaborating files in different projects, teams etc...
[+] https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
Again, I know, pain in the ass, but it's a work around.
OneDrive had a 1TB limit before this announcement, which isn't as dramatic of a comparison.
- http://blog.bitcasa.com/2014/10/23/important-we-are-upgradin...
"Beginning March 7 2013, PRISM now collects Microsoft (One)Drive data..."
http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl... (27)
If anyone at Google is reading this, you can win me back by incorporating photo deduplication. I have well over a terabyte of duplicate photos that I don't dare delete, but could easily be deduplicated down to maybe 100-200GB. I'm sure deduplication already happens server-side, but the consumer is still stuck with endless copies in disorganized folders.
Sadly, this is almost certainly checkmate for Dropbox. I imagine they'll be acquired by Amazon, which has yet to offer a decent consumer-facing cloud brand and needs the economies of scale to compete with Microsoft and Google. Even then, I'm not sure how anyone can compete with the price of OneDrive alone... much less when coupled with the best-of-class Office suite.
Also, this promotion doesn't work with business accounts.
[+] https://preview.onedrive.com/?wt.mc_id=oo_blog_onedrive_inse...
