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Comment by Derbasti | Hacker News Reader

In theory, yes. The recent news about Dropbox are not encouraging. The thing is, here is a list of things I need from a syncing service:

* Reliability. No fucking up my files, please.

* Low Maintenance. It should just work, basically.

* Cross Platform. I need to work reliably on Win, Lin, OSX. And at the same time, too.

Anything else is just bonus. If you know a syncing service besides Dropbox that satisfies all three of these, please let me know!

Oh, and bonus points for iOS/Android integration.

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http://www.wuala.com/ hits all 3 and much better security. Or wait for iOS5 and apps to add all types of file sync on iCloud.

My two biggest complaints about Wuala is that its client is written Java and occasionally eats up all my memory (even with -Xmx256m, though I believe this is Java's fault rather than Wuala), the interface is a bit hard to understand and there's no background mode like how Dropbox stays on menu bar in OSX. Apart from these two complaint, I'm pretty happy with the service enough to delete my (paid) Dropbox account for equivalent package on Wuala.

SpiderOak?

I installed SpiderOak on my Mac when the Dropbox security failures came to light a couple weeks ago. SpiderOak is just plain confusing and hard to use. I think I setup a folder to sync but with all of the options and "features" it has, I really don't know what is being synced or not. I'm a software developer by trade, and if I find it this confusing, I would definitely not recommend it to regular people. I'm going to give Live Mesh a shot and see how it works.

How is it better than Dropbox?

(This is not a snarky remark, I am really interested! How long have you used it? For what?)

Would you consider requiring a password for access to your files a bonus? For me, this "feature" is a deal-breaker.

I would not mind to enter my password once after starting my computer. In fact, I do that right now with Espoinage (a somewhat TrueCrypt-like software).

I don't want to enter my password every time I want to access one of my files. I am usually always working inside my Dropbox, so that would be a deal-breaker.

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