Copy (possible Dropbox replacement), free 20gb cloud storage

Looked at the basic site, and I can't tell if it is similar to Dropbox in that all I need to do is save stuff to a directory, or like some of the others I've tried where you have to go through more convoluted steps. Care to give us a little summary so maybe we're more inclined to click?

Went ahead and installed it since it is free and I get tons of spam at that email anyway. For those wondering like I was, it is basically Dropbox with another name and icon, from what I can see.

Free space is free space, so might as well.

EDIT: Naming the folder "Copy" seems rather dumb though. Too easy to get that mixed up with something else I'd imagine.

With the larger size, I'm actually thinking of putting everyone at work on it (10 people or so) because periodically someone's computer crashes and then everything they had saved on their desktop and not the server folder I told them to save it to is gone. Since a "server folder" seems to baffle them as soon as I say it, perhaps they'll have better luck just choosing the "Copy" folder which I'll rename to something with their name in it. I considered doing it with Dropbox before, but their free amount is a little small still. 20GB (because I'll soak up all those referrals kthx~) is more than most of them will ever use.

And I'm hopeful that this forces Dropbox to once again up their capacities so I get even more from them.

It seems just as easy and useful as Dropbox, so thanks for the heads up. I like the Dropbox sync icons better though, easier to see.

Yeah I saw that. Going to have them all get individual ones though I think. This would be more for personal documents, pictures, etc. that we allow everyone to keep on their computers, but then they freak out when they are gone.

I moved the directory to one that I made specifically for it, but it put a "Copy" folder inside that one to use as the official directory. Looks like there is no way to get away from it being called Copy. I still contend that's a terrible name for a directory.

If I'm missing something, please tell me.

The Dauntless One_sl said:

Just tell your coworkers "You know that copy folder? Copy everything to it." You might at least get some files saved in the case of a desktop failure.

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Hah! You make me laugh! I'd be happy if people could stop opening obvious virus email attachments and/or links.

One drawback of Copy, that I don't believe Dropbox has (haven't tested it though), is that I actually tried to link people's desktops directly into the Copy folder, so that it wouldn't matter how dumb they were, it would automatically back up anything they put there. That worked perfectly, except for one thing. Copy automatically digs deeper into every shortcut, and backs up that directory too. Since every single person here has a link to the fileserver, and several links to specific directories on it, that means Copy tries to back up the whole thing via each person's Copy account. I contacted support about this, and they said it is a specifically designed feature and they currently don't have any plans to allow you the option of turning it on or off.

It makes sense, in a way, because apparently if I wanted to backup my desktop I could just put an actual shortcut to my desktop in the Copy folder and not worry about linking or other "complicated" shit. It would work great for say a Music directory that you don't want to move, but still want to back up. In the specific case of a desktop with shortcuts though, it completely ruins the functionality. I'm sure that is a tiny, tiny subset of people that would use it the way I want to, but still, it sucks that I can't do it now because that was the perfect solution.

Ah well, at least I got a bunch of referrals out of installing it on every computer here!