TeamDrive

Comparison of DropBox, SpiderOak, SugarSync and TeamDrive with WebDAV

Which of the 4 free Online-Folder-Synchronisation-Services is the best for a user, depends on the user-requirements.

I have made a detailed comparison of the most important differences:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/131eVyWHujqj6ObQ8aciuD1NMQHbUCcCXiCeEGebLO4c/edit?hl=de

The biggest free WebDAV-storage (25GB) accessable with AnyClient and TeamDrive is Mediencenter from T-Online.de.

Thanks to Detlef for his correct information. I have seen, that it is possible to choose the folder location when accepting an invitation. This fact and the following 25GB free WebDAV storage make TeamDrive combined with Mediencenter to one of the best and most flexible online syncing services I know: If you speak german or you can translate the following german site, you can use this unique offer: http://dsl-und-dienste.t-online.de/mediencenter-die-online-festplatte-fuer-fotos-und-dateien/id12646830/index?aktreiter=3 . You can also access your files from your iPhone or Android or Windows Phone 7 mobile device with Mediencenter. For mounting the 25GB as a network drive it is necessary to download and install a little application or mount https://webdav.mediencenter.t-online.de/ in Windows as a network drive . To be sure, that your computer will not be slower with a WebDAV-network-drive it is better to use WebDAV-Drives with the very good portable syncing app Teamdrive, see (2) and download from (3).

(1) http://alternativeto.net/software/anyclient

(2) http://alternativeto.net/software/teamdrive/

(3) http://www.teamdrive.com/en/ref/v7fu2k99

It is not easy to choose the folder-location when accepting an folder-sync-invitation!

That the initiator of a shared space can select any local directory as a shared space in an easy way, is an advantage over dropbox. However: Only for the creator it is easy to choose the directory of the shared space free. Those, who accept an invitation to get the shared space, can choose the folder only very complicated, where the space will be synced to: generally a new subfolder is created automatically in the "TeamDrive Spaces" shared folder and the invited person can not place it free on the hard disk. This is a disadvantage compared with SugarSync, or SpiderOak, which however are not available as a portable version as TeamDrive is. One can indeed help with symbolic links (SymLinks or SoftLinks), even on Windows, but it has some drawbacks and is not easy to use. Therefore, the request to the Team Drive developers: Please provide a dialogue for choosing the folder-location when accepting an folder-sync-invitation! As long as TeamDrive has no solution for this problem I must use Synkron [1] (free and portable) to sync the subfolders of "TeamDrive Spaces" to a selectable folder.

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/synkron

Advantages of TeamDrive:

• TD: Data are already encrypted before they are uploaded and the encryption key stays with you.
• TD+SS: You can synchronise existing folders and configure synchronisation specifically for individual folders (DropBox: only 1 folder).
• Only TD: You can set the access rights for each folder, too and you can run your own Teamdrive Personal server free up to 10GB (more comfortable than a FTP server) or use a WebDAV server.
• Free TeamDrive Online Storage 2GB + 250MB for each invited friend up to 8GB free.
• Portable versions from the developer existing for TD and DB , not for SS.

Disadvantages of TeamDrive

• Uninstalling-procedure of V 2.1.095 not OK: With the"Internal Error 2739" during the uninstalling of TD the files jscript.dll and vbscript.dll must be registered by hand, see http://is.gd/haLtrq .
• TD desktop windows version 2.1.095 could not manage the Proxy Server internet connection in a company network, in which there was a working proxy server connection with SS and DB with no problems. I did not test this bad behaviour with the new TD version 2.4.050 from Apr.2011. * Download TeamDrive:*

Download of the portable TeamDrive for Windows or the desktop version for Windows, Linux or MAC OS X With 2.25 GB instead of only 2 GB free online storage.