If you are the kind of person who sips his morning coffee in front of a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document, the best app for you would be OneDrive. On Windows, it quietly backs up your Desktop, ...

Google announced its plans to transition users of its consumer file syncing desktop service, Backup and Sync, onto a new unified app that both consumers and business clients can use called Drive for ...

The title of this post is only slightly misleading, as I recently built a "Mac" using off-the-shelf PC parts. I also have a 4 year old MacBook Pro (2.2GHz) which is my main machine that I actually use ...

Anyone who uses multiple devices for work or personal projects knows how much easier everything gets when you can quickly and easily share files between them. iCloud syncing is one of the simplest ...

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Last time, we saw why WAN Optimization won over WAFS. This time we’ll take a look at how distributed replicated file services compared to WAN Optimization as alternatives looking backwards, as well as ...

In this second article of a two-part series, Posey finishes up by showing you how to set up the sync task so you can synchronize your data across the two file systems. In the previous article, I ...

I've scoured the web but can't seem to find an answer to this. What works: The users Documents are redirected to the server and the Y: drive is mapped. What doesn't work: Offline files. The specified ...

Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature. Trying to figure out how to send a large file to someone? Gmail and Yahoo ...

BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

Canonical has begun beta-testing a file-synchronization service called Ubuntu One for its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system. The closed beta test began Monday for invited members of the Ubuntu ...