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Comment by hollerith | Hacker News Reader

Even if it is significantly easier than in the old days, it might not easy and reliable enough.

Are you personally using Dropbox to sync data between two machines you regularly use? (An answer to that would help me decide how much weight to give to your comment.)

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While I was at school I used dropbox to sync all my course materials, notes, papers etc between my home desktop and my laptop. It worked really well and I never had trouble with it. I mostly did it because, at home, I preferred working with the larger screen and more comfortable keyboard that I had with my desktop.

When working collaboratively with small teams and shared folders it was more problematic, dealing with all the different document files that got created when there were conflicts was problematic. We ended up just going with Google docs for collaborative papers.

I'm using a combination of Dropbox and SkyDrive (OneNote!) to synchronize between the three machines which I use daily.

The documents on SkyDrive are also shared with two colleagues.

It works well for everything except the TrueCrypt partition I have. Per-file encryption would be more effective, but I have yet to find a nice tool.

For me the solution to replace TrueCrypt was about finding encFS. Because I use Windows/OSX, I even bought BoxCryptor which is commercial implementation of encFS.

Of course. I use it for 5 machines. Plus game club members = another 2 dozen - share an art folder.

I use no USB thumbdrives any more, no disks, no media of any kind. Haven't for two years now. Dropbox is enough. NOt great, but enough.

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