ADrive recently launched an updated uploader that does let you transfer entire directories with just the click of a mouse. But it's still kind of problematic, because it turns out that once you start a transfer, you can't use your web browser to do anything else until the transfer is finished (or you cancel the transfer, whichever comes first).
We're still waiting for a desktop based uploader. And we'd love to see a way to batch download files, but ADrive isn't meant for performing daily backups of your important data. It's really more of a way to store files online and access them from any computer. So you can't really judge it the same way you would an online backup site like Mozy or Carbonite.
[Thanks Tim!]
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12-06-2007 @ 1:01PM
james said...
Regarding your statement, "...once you start a transfer, you can't use your web browser to do anything else until the transfer is finished (or you cancel the transfer, whichever comes first)."
This is true, but incomplete or misleading -- You can simply open another instance of you web browser and continue to browse the web during your upload, so it's not like you lose use of the internet, you simply lose the ability to browse away from adrive in one window.
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12-06-2007 @ 1:04PM
Brad Linder said...
True, but you can't even switch to another tab. One of the main advantages to using Firefox or IE7 over earlier web browsers is that you don't need to keep opening additional instances of your browser, you can just move from tab to tab. If you have multiple tabs open and then decide to upload some files to ADrive, you'll find you're unable to switch back to your other tabs, which can be pretty annoying.
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12-06-2007 @ 7:13PM
Esente said...
Just a quick note: If you're behind proxy, then there is no way you can use the uploader. This Java app only support "basic" authentication, and proxy does not use basic authentication.
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1-11-2008 @ 3:44AM
selva said...
new member to your web
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2-26-2008 @ 4:46PM
David said...
But with ADrive you get 50GB of free online storage…the directory uploader tool works well and I can browse the web at the same time.
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