Before and after Microsoft

When I first started using Foldershare, several years ago, when it was
owned by ByteTaxi

Pre-MS: I had a stable foldershare client. I never had to worry about
whether my files were synching. It wasn't called Beta either

Post MS: I look every day to see whether my libraries are still there,
synched, working. The client is now called a "beta" several years
after the acquisition
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Pre-MS: I had a home page that showed me all my libraries, and how
many files were in them and how many were synched at a glance.

Post: MS: Now I have pretty icons, but I have to click through several
layers to get some of that same information. As of a few days ago, I
can't even see what paths each computer is synching a library to.
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Pre-MS: A paid option allowed me to have a greater number of libraries
and files per library

Post-MS: That option is not available (or perhaps "under development")
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Pre-MS: I add a new computer to my account, tell it what libaries to
synch with and I don't worry

Post-MS: After spending the weekend preparing a computer for an
employee, I add Foldershare.. and sit twiddling my thumbs. Nothing is
happening. I re-install the older client. Nothing. I read the usenet
group.. Oh there is an outage.. oh wait.. that's not till tomorrow. So
what's wrong today ? My work was planned around a sequence of steps,
one of them being synching documents with Foldershare. Now I sit here
and cannot proceed.
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Pre-MS: Synchs were able to transfer only the changed portion of a
file, reducing transfer times and bandwifht

Post-MS: This feature is not available or perhaps "under development".
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However many years after the acquisition from Byte Taxi.. I cannot
think of one single improvement made to FolderShare. That would be
fine.. the service was working pretty near perfectly prior to MS. I
set up remote offices in Europe and various parts of the US counting
on FolderShare to distribut my data. I have made business decisions
based on a service I paid for (at the time).

Now I have nicer icons and reduced functionality and a service that is
hiccuping all the time.

With all due respect to the FolderShare team, honestly, FolderShare is
regressing and it is hard to remain enthusiastic about what is
essentially a great idea and a great product.. or was..

Respecfully, Stephan

Agree completely, though the activity applet is new, isn't it?

In any event five years ago all our machines had Office and other MS
products. Now FS is the only MS product we use, and if we could find a decent
replacement that would probably change as well. MS just seems to have lost
the ability to develop solid products.

I'd like to think that if they went back to a paid model things would be
better but I'm not terribly sure of that.

DSC

"StephanSF@xxxxxx" wrote:

On Mar 25, 12:14 am, Don C <D...@xxxxxx> wrote: if you're referring to the window you can open to display what files
have transferred (the 3 pane view), then no, that's been there
forever. they just moved it up one level in the right click Menu
structure