Sharedsafe - cloud sync without restrictions

We have many times written about backup and synchronization service Dropbox files. In fact, this product has made a real revolution in its field, providing users with a convenient and intuitive, besides more and free product to meet these challenges.

Well, what would you say if you saw tool having approximately the same functions, but providing infinite storage space for your files, with the ability to sync any folder on any computer? Interesting?

Development Rootloft GmbH company called SharedSafe It uses in his work a very different principle. Unlike traditional faylohranilische providing for the storage of your data space on their disks (and made to pay for the extra space) SharedSafe It uses available space in your mailbox. You can use an unlimited number of any e-mail accounts, the main condition - the protocol they support IMAP. For example, everyone's favorite Gmail It provides about 7 GB of space, Yandex Mail 10 starts counting from GB followed free magnification, and Yahoo all claims of unlimited space. So you do get unlimited storage space for your files.

Immediately after you install and run the program you need to make a few simple adjustments. As I have said, as a repository using the mailbox, so the first thing you need to provide information about your email account tab Accounts.

The key concept for the program are special lockbox called developers safe. In fact it is just the IMAP-folders, but have a number of features. All data in this folder are encrypted with a special key, access to which is not nobody but you.

So, we need to create the vault-safe. To do this, go to the tab Safes and press NewWhich specify the account that you created in the previous step.

Now that we have created a special encrypted storage on the mail server, you can already choose a folder on your computer that will be synchronized with the safe. You can do this in the settings tab Linked Folders or using the context menu of any folder, in which the relevant points.

Synchronization occurs automatically in both directions. All changes related to safe folder will be copied to the remote repository, just like all the changes in safe immediately appear in your local folder.

Now let's see what you need to do in order to synchronize your files with another computer. To do this, it is possible to export / import safes. We must first export created Safe on one machine (the button Export tab Safes) To a file with extension .safekey.

After that you need to install SharedSafe to another machine and import the file safe. Now, these two machines in all data linked to Saif folders are automatically synchronized in the same way as it happens in Dropbox.

To summarize.
In my opinion, the program SharedSafe - a very interesting and promising solution to backup and synchronize files between different computers. The benefits can be attributed first and foremost the ability to use virtually unlimited space for storing files. This can be used to backup important data of any size. But the snap to any folder Saif It makes it possible to synchronize a variety of data between different computers, which greatly expands the range of applications programs.

However, there are some downsides. The mechanism set up and use SharedSafe is not as simple as in the same Dropbox, which may scare off novice users. However, the version number - 0.6.2336Beta - explains the many shortcomings. In any case, I personally program SharedSafe very interested and I will closely monitor the development of this project.