'Save to Dropbox'

Oso3D

If someone posts a Dropbox download, I can 'save to Dropbox' without having to download the file to my machine.

For people who have bandwidth/hardware limitations, would it be possible for Daz to set up delivery mechanisms to go to Dropbox/OneDrive/etc?

 

(Obviously, you'd want some sort of official 'do not share these files' with Dropbox and not putting it in a public folder, but that's not essentially different from what we have now)

 

Charlie Judge

I don't know about 'Dropbox' but I'm pretty sure you can do a manual download and save it to 'One Drive'

Oso3D

The point is to skip downloading it to your machine for people who have difficult with the bandwidth.

 

namffuak

Two issues from my point of view:

1) You still have to burn the bandwidth to do the product install

2) Your files are sitting on someone else's hard drive, subject to vanishing if the business plan changes or the MPAA/RIAA/FBI get upset about what someone else uploaded.

And with 1 TB USB drives under $100 there's no real excuse for not having enough storage space (says the guy who, quite some time ago, spent $1,600 for a 676 MB full-height disk drive that ran hot enogh to keep the coffee warm).

Charlie Judge

timmins.william said:

The point is to skip downloading it to your machine for people who have difficult with the bandwidth.

 

I didn't mean downloading it to your machine and then adding it to 'One Drive'.  I meant using "save as" and selecting 'One Drive' as the locartion to download to. I'm not sure if that would save any bandwidth but at least it should provide backup storage

Oso3D

One of the folks commenting about issues is in Iraq on a longterm basis. His bandwidth is nearly nonexistant.

Given him, other people going through periods of limited bandwidth, people who don't normally have a lot stored locally, people whose budget, even for $100 TB drives, is limited, this would be valuable.

 

IceCrMn

Wouldn't you still have to download and install your stuff at some point in order to use it?

As has been said already , online storage is great, as long as you can continue to pay for it,along with all the other problems storing files online can cause.

I would think shipping physical media like a USB thumb drive or a DVD would be the best solution for bandwidth limits and longer term asset storage. Even if you lose your internet service forever, you can plug in a thumb drive anytime you want.

Esemwy

While the latency is a bit extreme, one should never underestimate the bandwidth of FedEx + hard disks. 

More on subject, for the most part, Dropbox and the like do file synchronization rather than remote access, so they don't save you any space. For myself, I find it convenient to share a content directory on Dropbox where I keep my own work. That way I can go back and forth between my laptop and desktop without keeping track of where I did what.