File sharing - sorta OT, but maybe helpful

Yeah, Dropbox rocks! :)

Been using for a while now mate!!! And it rocks!!! Thanx for sharing :)

Totally love Dropbox. I use it to collaborate with musicians all over the world. No more emailing mp3's when you can share whole Reaper projects! Granted, I mix down multiple tracks into a rough mix stereo track but I send it as a Reaper file so the other Dropboxer can simply open it on their Reaper, record tracks, re-render it, and drop it back to me. It's brilliant. And if a project gets huge (life sharing an entire multi-track project for collaborative mix-downs)the price for extra storage is reasonable and well worth it. Yay for Dropbox!

Pretty neat service indeed. I use it to share files with podcasting folks. They have a dropbox account, I have one, I create a directory in my Dropbox dir on my local HD, right-click on it, pick "Sharing Options" and send out an invitation to the person I wish to collaborate with. That person can then place files there. The dropbox application syncs your local files with the online space, and back to anyone with whom I've shared that folder(also Dropbox account holders). Excellent for collaboration.

I used Dropbox for quite some time and really liked it. Then I started to use it to synchronize my REAPER projects and VST/effects across two computers and found it was a bit limiting. I switched to SugarSync which allows more flexibility but requires a bit more fiddling. You can get very far with Dropbox and symbolic linking of directories (MKLINK in Windows) although YMMV. I actually tried to sync REAPER data too to have REAPER be identical across computers. Unfortunately that failed because I could not figure out a way to have separate .ini-files. I love clouding my data.

Hey Sibben, sorta OT: Your avatar brings back memories of very good music!! :) -Data