[PLUG-TALK] Alternatives to various "Cloud" file sharing services?

[Gregory Salter]

What box are you talking about? You mention it several times with no context clues.
Gregory





>________________________________
> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
>To: Plug-Talk <plug-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:33 PM
>Subject: [PLUG-TALK] Alternatives to various "Cloud" file sharing services?
> 
>My sister-in-law runs a word processing/transcribing/editing business. 
>She has an account with box that for several years she assumed was more 
>private that it really is. She thought that the separate folders within 
>the account were only visible to herself and the client who uploaded 
>something to that folder. She has discovered -- as have many other folks 
>who were also under the same impression -- that no, any user with access 
>to her account can visit the folders of any other user on her account. 
>She has asked box about this and found out that that's just the way it 
>is. She has read about a professor who has a higher paid subscription to 
>box who also thought there was privacy on a folder by folder basis and 
>learned that this is not true for his account, either. He figured out 
>how to restructure the folders in his account so that there is privacy 
>on a folder by folder basis. Box doesn't appear to be interested in 
>spreading the word about this.
>
>So, now my sister-in-law is looking for an alternative. She doesn't want 
>to go the route the professor went where she'd have to do a lot of 
>customizing of the higher cost account.
>
>Does anyone have experience with the various services being provided and 
>know if any of them provide the kind of security she's looking for? If I 
>wasn't clear above, she wants to be able to have each client have a 
>folder within her account that only she and that client have access to. 
>And, of course, she doesn't want to pay much for it. The account on box 
>that the professor has costs $80/year. I don't know for sure, but I 
>think her account is very cheap, or even free.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>
>Dick Steffens
>
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