I am currently looking for a way to get rid of my local storage since I am frequently traveling and finding myself in situations where access to my storage would have been great. So I have been looking at ways to sync and store all of my storage securely in the cloud while having convenient access to it while on the road. On my quest to finding the perfect solution I came across Clouddrive. While technically it seems to be a very very powerful solution, I am a bit skeptical of the Windows only solution so here are a few questions if I may ....
- I do understand that access from outside of Windows will be difficult due to the nature of the product. However, I am still wondering if you guys are planning some workaround. Imagine a road warrior loosing his notebook in the middle of nowhere and needing access to some of his cloud storage files. Now with cloud storage being accessible from anywhere, basically it would be stupid to limit myself to a clouddrive that I cannot access from anywhere, thereby limiting my options to access the data to my PC basically.
So my question would be ... could it technically be possible for you to develop some sort of webservice that could, in the future, allow us to log in from any internet cafe securely, mount the relevant drive, unlock the encryption and download some files from the drive? Of course, this could be even more useful if there was an Android/iOS app available that could access that webservice. Also at least through that workaround MacOSX or Linux users could access their storage in some way.
- Second question would be about areas without internet access. I understand that Clouddrive comes with a very powerful prefetcher and cache. Does that mean (or will it be possible at some point in the future) that I can select a folder on my cloud drive to permanently or temporarily keep in the local cache so that I can access files in my clouddrive even if I am traveling to an area without internet access?
Last but not least I am a bit disappointed that Clouddrive doesnt seem to work well with Amazon Cloud Drive so far. (I did read that long thread about the subject) I just recently started my subscription with amazon so I hope the issues can be resolved soon. I guess in the meantime I will just try out the beta with my very limited Google or Onedrive cloud. However, they wont be able to hold all of my local storage so the only solution I would be interested in would be one that works reliably with ACD
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I am currently looking for a way to get rid of my local storage since I am frequently traveling and finding myself in situations where access to my storage would have been great. So I have been looking at ways to sync and store all of my storage securely in the cloud while having convenient access to it while on the road. On my quest to finding the perfect solution I came across Clouddrive. While technically it seems to be a very very powerful solution, I am a bit skeptical of the Windows only solution so here are a few questions if I may ....
- I do understand that access from outside of Windows will be difficult due to the nature of the product. However, I am still wondering if you guys are planning some workaround. Imagine a road warrior loosing his notebook in the middle of nowhere and needing access to some of his cloud storage files. Now with cloud storage being accessible from anywhere, basically it would be stupid to limit myself to a clouddrive that I cannot access from anywhere, thereby limiting my options to access the data to my PC basically.
So my question would be ... could it technically be possible for you to develop some sort of webservice that could, in the future, allow us to log in from any internet cafe securely, mount the relevant drive, unlock the encryption and download some files from the drive? Of course, this could be even more useful if there was an Android/iOS app available that could access that webservice. Also at least through that workaround MacOSX or Linux users could access their storage in some way.
- Second question would be about areas without internet access. I understand that Clouddrive comes with a very powerful prefetcher and cache. Does that mean (or will it be possible at some point in the future) that I can select a folder on my cloud drive to permanently or temporarily keep in the local cache so that I can access files in my clouddrive even if I am traveling to an area without internet access?
Last but not least I am a bit disappointed that Clouddrive doesnt seem to work well with Amazon Cloud Drive so far. (I did read that long thread about the subject) I just recently started my subscription with amazon so I hope the issues can be resolved soon. I guess in the meantime I will just try out the beta with my very limited Google or Onedrive cloud. However, they wont be able to hold all of my local storage so the only solution I would be interested in would be one that works reliably with ACD
Thanks for listening!
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