Vista - Radical idea

Hey Microsoft,

I have a radical idea - say, if you product - Foldershare - has stopped
functioning for 3+ days, maybe at some point you'd consider letting users
know what/if is up and when you expect users might be able to connect again.
Yeah, I know the program is free but that doesn't exclude MS from the
responsibility for keeping users informed. Otherwise, what's going to happen
is easy to guess - X % of your user base is going to bail for the
competition. One clue is the number of threads on this forums asking about
alternatives in recent months... The program is great, but what MS is doing
to it right now is like a slow drawn-out death. Shame.

Just my 2c,
-Alex

> I have a radical idea - say, if you product - Foldershare - has stoppedAgreed. This outage is especially brutal. I've emailed my contacts on the
FolderShare team asking what's going on, but no response yet. I think any
serious outages (something lasting longer than a couple of hours) should be
posted about in this forum at the bare minimum.

I second that. Yes, please do continue to apply pressure. Nobody likes a
squeaky wheel but it gets the grease.

"Jason Dunn" wrote:

What are the "competition"? I don't see any competition for the price and
functionality of FS.

"dipluso" wrote:

"ChanKaiShi" wrote:
Well, there's PowerFolder and BeInSync. BIS somehow wiped out my complete
Thunderbird inbox. PF only lets you have 3 synch folders in the free
version, but it also doesn't let you access some of your more "sensitive"
folders, like Documents & Settings.

So, when FolderShare is actually online and the clients will actually bother
to log in and stay logged in, it seems to be the best of the worst, so far.

I wish we could find more options.

Styler001,

We're seriously looking at moving to BeInSync. Did you receive any support
from the BIS folks when it wiped out your Thunderbird inbox? Was that on a
recent version?

Regards,
Mike

"Styler001" wrote:

"Mike Welland" wrote:
I didn't bother going to BIS for any help. I don't need a program that can
"accidentally" wipe out something like that. I did complete searches on my
hard drives, but the files were definitely lost. I was too pissed off that
it could even happen that I uninstalled the program right away. And, yes, it
was their most recent version...well, whatever the most recent version was
that you could download from their site a couple weeks ago. It'll be a long
time before I even begin to consider giving their product a try again.

Well that certainly sucks. And this FolderShare with their broken servers
doesn't make me happy either. Maybe I can hire a temp to copy files
back-and-forth between my machines with a USB drive every time I go to get
coffee or use the can. That's where I'd like to go today.

Hey, if somebody from Microsoft is on here, would you like me to donate a
new server to host FolderShare? I have FedEx one to your office tomorrow
before 10am.

"Styler001" wrote:

> BIS somehow wiped out my complete Thunderbird inbox

Can I suggest that synching an inbox is a very bad idea? There are a lot of
things that can go wrong. Use IMAP instead.