DropBox!

I can't tell you how much I've been enjoying DropBox... I back up everything with TimeMachine, but actually lost a number of sermons in a catastrophic hard-drive failure (okay... I tripped over an open dishwasher door while carrying the laptop. It was catastrophic and the hard drive... failed) between backups. 

Now- I absolutely don't worry about ever losing important documents...

I set up a DropBox account, installed what I needed on my laptop and just dragged the folders I wanted automatically kept backed up to the DropBox folder. The confusing thing at first is that the "sermons" folder disappeared from my "documents" folder. In order to keep everything just the way it was (and the way I liked it), I simply created an alias of my sermons folder and put that back where it should have been. Perfect. Now- I save things to my sermons folder, my evergreen folder, whatever- and it's instantly backed-up- every change.

The other added benefit is the shared folder. This is truly amazing- I often need to transfer files, movies, whole folders to a staff person- since they have DropBox on their PC, and have connected our shared folders, when I drag something to that folder, no matter where he is, he gets an instant notification that something new has appeared there- I don't even have to tell him. Love it. 

Need access to files at work AND at home and maybe on the road as well? DropBox is the solution- and never worry that you don't have the latest version- it's all automatic. There's web access to your files as well, if you are away from your own computer and still need something. 

And it's free...

If you are still interested in trying DropBox go ahead and sign up... use "go" as the beta code. 

You're welcome. :)

Comments

[Joel Burdeaux]

As a die-hard mac guy, I am almost ashamed to say that I have relied heavily on a free Microsoft product for instant and redundant back-ups for almost 2 years.

It's called Foldershare, and it's free, and it rocks.

It has saved me a few times now, and it's nice to be able to access the documents from any mac or pc with an internet connection. (I was able to search through all of my sermon notes when asked to preach while in Russia.)

I recommend multiple, instant, and redundant back-ups of all your important files.

[Jeff]

DropBox is great... I usually work with my MacBook on my desk next to my church-provided PC (I need the PC for Publisher and for printing, but I simply can't give up my mac-only Omnifocus for organizing myself. Besides, I feel more creative on the mac.)

Before I had to cart files back and forth on a flash drive or use Google Docs or something. Now I can save a file in my DropBox on the MacBook and by the time I wheel my chair over to the PC it has updated there so I can open and print it.

[Mark Carlson]

For those considering using DropBox, you can use this referral URL to get a bonus 250 MB of space plus 2 GB when you sign up for a free DropBox account:

https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTEwNjIyMzk5

Enjoy,

Mark