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Originally Posted by jaxim
I'll have to look into this. Does anyone know the differences between FolderShare and SkyDive?
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SkyDive involves airplanes and parachutes, FolderShare doesn't.
Seriously, I'm not all that familiar with SkyDrive, but FolderShare doesn't store you files anywhere but on your own computers. The service replicates the files among 2 or more computers, but uses each computer's local storage. SkyDrive takes a different approach, physically storing the files remotely (I don't know if there is an option to have SkyDrive files automatically replicated locally). I don't think that there are any size limitations for FolderShare, which is certainly different for SkyDrive (although 5GB is a pretty high limit, it would seem quite easy to exceed this when sharing media). FolderShare allows you to make the files available to others, but it requires that at least one of your shared computers stay online. Perhaps in the future they will be merged, allowing off-site vs. local storage (or both) to simply be a configurable option.
Hope this helps.