Comments on: Dropbox: Remote File Syncing

By: Remote Backup Roundup | Data Privacy and Protection

Remote Backup Roundup | Data Privacy and Protection — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:58:39 +0000

[...] is a lot like Dropbox, but isn’t limited to just one folder on your computer. It keeps a version history and allows [...]

By: amandolin

amandolin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:09:37 +0000

I wanted to mention that Dropbox has frozen up two times since using it on my Windows computer, making it impossible to use the Stand By, Hibernate, or even the Shut Down function until I force quit the Dropbox application. The two times it happened were a bit annoying, but it's something that I will deal with given the otherwise great functionality of Dropbox.

By: Summer

Summer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:16:40 +0000

Joe, I can not tell you how useful and helpful these blog posts are. Thank you. This is the kind of stuff I don't get around to making more convenient for myself because I don't know how. You are explaining it so clearly, I “get” it and totally plan to make adjustments to my data storage.

Thank you!!!

By: FirstClown

FirstClown — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:07:56 +0000

You will want to check the law as well, of course. I am not a lawyer.

By: FirstClown

FirstClown — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:51:14 +0000

You should be worried and I would not put that information unencrypted on Dropbox.

I'll be talking about this very issue soon, but if you want to read ahead in the book (High School reference! Get it!) check out TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is a program that let's you set up virtual hard drives with very strong encryption. One great thing is that it also runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

So what you can do is create a TrueCrypt volume, which is just a file on your hard drive, and put it into your Dropbox folder so that it's available from home and office. Then, when you want to work on the files within it, mount it to the computer you're on and it shows up as a hard drive. When your done working (and this is important) unmount it in TrueCrypt and Dropbox will sync it up again.

Since it's encrypted with only a password you know, even if someone gets it off of Dropbox somehow, they won't be able to read anything within it.

Like I said, I hope to go into detail soon on that set up since I use it myself. Feel free to email me any questions you have if you're bold enough to try it out.