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Post by pavaro on Apr 9, 2017 9:36:59 GMT -9
Do you know a good and safe place for free to upload your work to download? I know Dropbox and google drive but are they safe? Maybe you know about others?
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 9, 2017 10:58:55 GMT -9
I use flickr, but that is only because someone else here recommended it years ago. I really know almost nothing about the internet except how to get here.
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Post by squirmydad on Apr 9, 2017 13:38:50 GMT -9
Do you know a good and safe place for free to upload your work to download? I know Dropbox and google drive but are they safe? Maybe you know about others? Both Dropbox and Google Drive are good services. I believe Dropbox may have canceled a lot of their free services, not sure what remains. You could also create a Wordpress blog with a files section, or a Facebook group with a file section, or use Flickr or Photobucket, all of these places have pluses and minuses, you just need to find the one that will work with you for what you're trying to do.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Apr 9, 2017 15:17:12 GMT -9
I've used Dropbox my sharing platform for several years, as well as a medium for easily moving files between the two computers I use on a near-daily bases. It is not difficult to set up, and once you've got your account set up, it's very easy to use for a variety of purposes. It is secure for the sharer, and safe from malware for downloaders.
The free account has a storage capacity of about 2.5 GB, as I recall; it took me about three years to actually hit it. When that happened, I went through my Dropbox folders and identified things that didn't need to be there, and moved them elsewhere, and I was back in business. The subscription fee for a paid account is pretty cheap (about $10 a month, if I recall), and gives you a terabyte of storage, which strikes me as more than anyone could ever need. As I said, I've managed to work inside the 2.5 GB limit for several years without problem.
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Post by pavaro on Apr 9, 2017 19:58:38 GMT -9
Ok but are they good at file exchange - I <-> internet <-> I ? I would also like to have some influence on these files. Update, rename or delete. If I give general access to eg dropbox, my computer will be safe? What do you think?
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Post by jeffgeorge on Apr 9, 2017 22:25:14 GMT -9
Ok but are they good at file exchange - I <-> internet <-> I ? I would also like to have some influence on these files. Update, rename or delete. If I give general access to eg dropbox, my computer will be safe? What do you think? Dropbox basically works as an automatic cloud-based duplicate of a folder on own hard drive. If you install it on your computer, you just save to it like any other folder, and Dropbox will automatically copy the files to the online folder. If you install it on more than one computer, it's as if you had that same folder on every computer--all changes made on one computer are automatically updated on all computers with the Dropbox folder. There are literally no extra steps in using it once it's installed. As for sharing via Dropbox, you right-click the file you want to share, and click "Copy Dropbox link to clipboard" or something like that. This copies a link to that file only, which you can paste into a forum post or email. Then, anyone with that link can download that file, but they can't edit it, and they can't get to anything else in your Dropbox. It is possible to share part or all of your Dropbox folder with other users, and to do it in a way that lets them edit the files, but that's a separate process from sharing a download link to a specific file. A big part of what's nice about Dropbox is the many ways that you can use it for different purposes on a file-by-file or folder-by-folder basis.
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