** Hastings Rock Radio **
Not sure Jon…. I’ll investigate
Cheers
Tony Bell
On 10 Mar 2023, at 18:53, jon bird <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
** Hastings Rock Radio **
Belatedly, all fine with me....
I don't suppose you know if it's possible to share content with our
existing Google accounts *without* it impacting your local quota? I
know sharing is possible with both but with Dropbox it would also use
up your own storage which made it a bit cack. That would be really
useful and save the need to keep logging in/out of accounts (although I
for one won't miss that appalling puzzle authentication scheme Dropbox
rolled out).
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:21:58 +0000
Tony Bell <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Nick,
Ok, so in the background it’s all setup now, and in fact it’s
configured to “replicate” whatever is on Dropbox to the new Google
drive….
I need a volunteer to test out the shared library, as this can now be
done by specific people who can have access, or “anyone with the
link” ….
Any takers?
Btw, you should be able to access the new google drive here:
https://drive.google.com ;
If you already use google or google drive, it will probably log you
straight in to your own google account, so create another profile
using the following :
User: hastingsrock87.7@xxxxxxxxx
Passwd: hastrock
And you should see all the usual folders and files as you did with
Dropbox…
I will lock out the Dropbox account this evening… we don’t want two
services running!
Google also do a very handy app for iPhone and android, making access
to stuff very quick!
Any questions, please shout!
Cheers
Tony Bell
On 10 Mar 2023, at 13:29, nick apps <nick_apps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
YES .
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From: Tony Bell
Sent: 10 March 2023 11:48
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Hastings Rock] Re: Cloud Storage Costs
Thanks Rick….
Should I take non replies as passive agreement this is a good plan
? 😁
Cheers
Tony Bell
On 10 Mar 2023, at 10:39, rick cousins
<rcousin.cousin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
** Hastings Rock Radio **
Hi Tony
I use Google dropbox for some non-sensitive work files, without
problem. So that's a yes from me.
Rick
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From: hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
behalf of Tony Bell <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 09 March 2023
15:55 To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Hastings Rock] Re: Cloud Storage Costs
I may be answering my own question. Short amount of research shows
that Google Drive seems to offer the largest free option with 15
GB of storage. It also gives the same level of sharing and access
options that dropbox currently gives us and it’s all free.
Does anybody have any violent objections to trying this out? If
so, please speak up otherwise I’ll create a Test account using the
same details as our dropbox and ask people to participate in a
short trial.
In fact, if you want to try it out, here is a sample shared link,
to a folder that will mimic what’s in our shared dropbox folder….
Google Drive: Sign-in
drive.google.com
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Cheers
Tony Bell
On 9 Mar 2023, at 15:00, Tony Bell <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Me again,
So while doing the Admin on our dropbox service, its clear will
soon run out of space on the standard 2Gb storage facility we have
at the moment, which is free... (We have about 250Mb left....)
There are 3 things we could do here:
1) We cull out previous years notes, minutes, pictures etc etc,
this will free up 1.3Gb which should be fine, even with all the
music, ads and jingles we upload for Shared access to DJ's. But
this will give us the problem of what and where do we store this
old material? (Do we even want to maintain it?)
2) Upgrade our account to 2 Terrabytes, all sorted, down side
is, it will cost £95.00 per year
3) Find another Cloud storage service that gives the same
flexibility of Dropbox, but cheaper....
4) Someone volunteers to act as the Archive for our old stuff
and keeps it in their own storage facilities....
5) Something I havent thought of.....
Answers by reply please......
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