February 8th, 2013
Get A Free Get 50GB Box.com Account For Life!
Get A Free Get 50GB Box.com Account For Life
Valid for new accounts only.
-Send a file – even entire folders – just by emailing a link! Get that contract to your client before leaving the meeting, not after.
-Turn any folder into an online workspace and edit projects, assign and manage tasks, and more.
-With Box’s robust mobile apps,view important content on the go from any device.
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February 8th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Not worth because its a non sequre server
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February 8th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Is this legit? It sounds sketchy
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February 8th, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Thanks, Dan!
How can I upload folders? It seems to only allow files.
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February 8th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Any guarantees of safety?
Commitment to privacy?
(i.e. confidential documents, photos, etc…)
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February 8th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
@Junk:
#1 What do you mean its a non sequre server and how would that affect the backup process?
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February 8th, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Existing customers! If you already have a basic account (that is smaller than 50GB), just contact their tech support (Help -> Support -> Submit a Request). In your request, copy and paste the dell promotion link or a snapshot of the landing page and ask if you can be upgraded as well. Worked like a charm for me (though it took them over an hour to respond)
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February 9th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Box.com seems to be well established and legit (see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410914,00.asp ) and competitively secure (see http://www.petri.co.il/dropbox-vs-skydrive-vs-box.htm ). Although experts recommend “For those of you that use free cloud services, encrypt your data BEFORE you put it in the cloud.”
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February 9th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Look into using in conjunction with BoxCryptor
https://www.boxcryptor.com/ As per their website:
BoxCryptor secures your data in the cloud – no matter if you use Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive or any other cloud storage provider.
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February 9th, 2013 at 6:32 pm
Oh yeah, forgot to mention BoxCryptor is free for personal use.
https://www.boxcryptor.com/
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February 9th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
box.com is very legit. It’s as secure as dropbox or any of the other cloud storage sites out there (which means security is is about medium strength). You can only upload files (not folders for the free account. I’ve been using box.com for about 5 years now, and have never had a problem.
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February 9th, 2013 at 10:43 pm
The link is not working for some reason.
Antone else have this problem?
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February 9th, 2013 at 11:52 pm
Wooot
Go shmuli!!
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:20 am
@BLITZ:
I just used it and it works. Their email to me did wind up in my spam folder, so may have to check for this.
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:36 am
I signed up over a year ago when they had a free 50 GB account. I was syncing 25 GB and the sync messed up so I lost over 10gb of data. I contacted their support who doubled my account to 100gb but didn’t recover any of my data. Part of their problem is when u have a tree of folders the outermost folder will show completely synced while there are inner folders unsynced. I have since switched to dropbox(when I got an s3) who has a better sync algorithm and never had a problem.
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:44 am
I am not that computer savvy pls explain how I could send my files encrypted i did download the boxcryptor.com and also have a box account. Any help will be greatly appreciated
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February 10th, 2013 at 8:54 am
Nice deal. Yeah, box is totally legit. Probably worth over 4Billion, will go public most likely end of 2013 or 2014 for 6-8B
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February 10th, 2013 at 9:53 am
spideroak is where its at. they encrypt before they upload and can never access your data.
but you don’t get it for free but there are a lot of codes out there for discounts and 50% education discounts.
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:26 pm
All those asking if box.com is legit, it is like asking if reddit or tumblr is legit. You guys just never dealt with them, you only know the low end versions like dropbox and google drive.
Box is geared towards business and enterprise users and trying to get into the regular user market as well.
While on topic, Google drive (the application) sucks! upload speeds remind me of dial up, they really need to get their act together. I uploaded a few 2gb files to dropbox and gdrive at the same time, dropbox was finished in 2.5 hours, google drive took over 2 days! and failed a few times in middle. gdrive is good for tiny little files.
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
what’s the catch?
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February 10th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
also, has anyone used dropbox and box? if yes, can you please explain teh differences?
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February 10th, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Time to think in the box and get your head into the cloud!
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February 10th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
Can I sync with the free account?
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February 11th, 2013 at 10:01 am
Major let down – upload file size can not be larger than 250MB per file!
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February 16th, 2013 at 8:33 pm
@jh: that is only if you are uploading via their website. If you use Box’s desktop or mobile app, you are limited to the size of your Box account. In this case 50GB.
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February 20th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
The link returns an error massage: “Sorry, we were unable to validate your offer.” Is the deal dead?
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March 10th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
dead?