Comments on: Review: SugarSync

By: Herb Mann

Herb Mann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:18:14 +0000

What’s wrong with Soonr?

By: Realitista

Realitista — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:37:03 +0000

Promising idea, but the implementation is half baked. I’ve had a lot of freezes, crashes, and it always claims more space than the actual files takes up and won’t let me reclaim the space. If they ever get it working well it will be a nice service, but as it stands it’s kind of half-assed.

By: cheap guitars

cheap guitars — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:15:48 +0000

This is great tools. I’m using it since last month and it is really useful.

By: lt

lt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:47:22 +0000

I was happy with Sugarsync until I got a new laptop, and tried to replicate my files. Boy, what a mess. I don’t know if it’s me or them, but nothing seems to be working. and there’s no way to contact them except by email — no chat or phone number. I am soo frustrated, I’m turning off Sugarsync, and going back to my trusty DVD-RW. The reason that I don’t know what’s going on is it doesn’t post a status or error message. And the changes I’ve requested don’t seem to be happening. I thought the idea was great — and I guess it is for backing up files from one computer. btw, there is versioning, if you right-click on the filename.

By: geomom

geomom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:31:35 +0000

I am currently doing the trial. I started with photos/image files. As Clive says above, it has taken me DAYS to just do the initial upload of about 4G of files. DAYS!! I’m actually still not done, SugarSync Manager says I have 4 files pending and it will be done in 45 min. woo. hoo.

Here are some limitation I’ve run into–iPhoto integration between Macs doesn’t work. The SugarSync people actually tell you NOT to sync your iPhoto Library file. Which would be OK except then you have to drill down and carefully select only the folders which contain the actual image files (original and edited) before you sync.

Problem #2–the Blackberry “sync” is not technically a sync. You can’t upload files from an SD card OTA. You need to physically copy the files to one of the computers associated with your account. In order to magically “sync” photos, you must open the camera application from a menu within the SugarSync app. Then you take a photo and it uploads to your SugarSync Mobile Photos folder. The photos are then synced to your computers–BUT THEY ARE NOT SAVED ON YOUR DEVICE. And like I said above you can’t upload photos after the fact directly from your BB. So you then have to download them back to your device. Cumbersome.

So–it’s SLOW (so is iDisk), it can’t brainlessly backup photos of my adorable kids that I take with my BB, and it’s S-L-O-W! The Magic Briefcase is pretty cool.

27 min to go!

By: clive davies

clive davies — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:40:49 +0000

Sugarsync has been ’sync-ing’ my 4.3 GB ‘my documents’ folder now for 2 days and 2 nights over a broadband connection – 134 files to go – boy this is SLOWWWWW!

By: Shylock

Shylock — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:07:50 +0000

SugarSync is pretty slow at the moment (around 20 kbps) and also quite expensive … Humyo (www.humyo.com) offers stronger encryption and costs around 45 € per year for 100 Gb. The upload speed is 4 times as fast as for SugarSync.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:57:10 +0000

SugarSync sure sounds sweet.

By: alfie

alfie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:35:32 +0000

Errr, another "Con" is that Orb does this, very well, and for free. I get the backup side of this service, but if it's mobile access to documents and content you want, ORB should do the trick every time.

By: drdrew

drdrew — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:53:38 +0000

How often has this happened to you?

All the freakin’ time. Why, if I had a nickel…

BTW, just thought you might want to know that your favorite music folder is spelled wrong – there’s no “i” in NSYNC there, prettyboy…