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Hello !

 

I went to  DropBox website to see the offer. 

Around £ 65 per year for personal account 100 GB 

and around £ 522 for business - it says storage "as much as you need" - (Reminds me of a Chinese Takeaway from Soho "eat as much as you like") 

 

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Is there any cheaper alternative ?

Can I do a personal account with them and use it for business ? (100 GB it s enough for me) 

 

Many thanks

 

Adrian 



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Hi Adrian :)

I use Dropbox but I don't pay for it? You get so much free. I ask clients to copy the appropriate folders back onto their hard drive, once I finished working on it, so that the information isn't floating about on the internet. Of course, I also advice that they take a back up.

HTH



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Hello Michelle :)


I though I have read "a free trial", are they giving some free GB of storage forever ?


Many thanks,

Adrian


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What I am trying to avoid is to open a free account and after this, having them chasing me to become a paid member. :)

Please if you could advise how they work and if they give some GB of storage for free for a long time.

Cheers

Adrian

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its 2GB free and an additional 2GB for each person that you introduce up to 18GB.

I only use it on a transient basis so don't even need 2GB.

there is of course no guarantee that anything will be free forever and may be just getting people signed up before introducing a fee structure however, like foxy at then moment I pay nothing for it and if ever you go have to pay for it then I would probably move to something else.

For instance, just send yourself an email with the file attached. It exists outside of your hard drive as well as on it (once read it is retrieved from your ISP but a copy should still be there should you need it).

For now though dropbox is fine and free.



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And dropbox don't chase you at all.

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Many thanks Michelle and Shaun,


This is a great help like always.

Kind regards,

Adrian

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Ditto on Shaun's advice.. sorry, was on the phone :)

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As above and to get more space - invite friends/customers to use it too!

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Many thanks Michelle, Shaun and Joanne,

Although this seems like a lazy Friday afternoon, I will proceed to get started with the DropBox.

Have a very good day !

Adrian

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It is soooo simple.

each computer that you instal it on has a dropbox folder. everytime you log onto a machine it syncs your folders.



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Very simple to use from anywhere.

I ve really enjoyed the cartoon:


Wow Your computer is on fire

Doesn`t matter , I have my files on DB It was kind of cold in here anyway ...


Adrian


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