I have posted a couple of times before about FolderShare, and it’s recent purchase by Microsoft. I just wanted to add two comments:
1) it is now totally free. I will be refunded a pro-rated amount for the remainder of my subscription year. This is excellent news, and if you didn’t sign up already, then you no longer have an excuse not to do so.
2) they removed one of the best features – differential analysis of files prior to transfer. Before the MSFT purchase, FolderShare would be very intelligent about how it transferred files, often only transferring the changed parts of the file to save download time. As someone who has a number of 25Mb plus files and only a 512kbps DSL line at home, i have now gone back to “multiple minutes” of download time for each change to one of those files, instead of a couple of seconds. Microsoft, please add this feature back in!
