They haven’t given any clues about how soon they will properly launch the service. Bitcasa’s Twitter feed also teased forthcoming “ Big news for gamers coming soon” earlier in the week. Mobile versions appear to be in the works, going by seeing tweets about the company hiring mobile developers. Bitcasa also requires less reorganizing of how you manage your data because of it’s neat integration with your computer’s file system, rather than requiring you to put stuff you want synced in a dedicated folder.īitcasa aren’t talking to the press right now, but they did confirm in a tweet last month that Bitcasa is free to use during the beta period and will cost $10 a month afterwards last month. It adds up to a very different proposition to Dropbox, which is priced in a way that encourages you to use it to sync important files you need frequent access to, not for long-term backups (The personal version offers 2 GB for free, 50 GB for $9.99 a month and 100 GB for $19.99 a month). My guess is that Bitcasa’s success will hinge on how well they can help users deal with a service designed to be forgotten about that very occasionally reminds you of its existence in a frustrating way, when you can’t access your data. I haven’t used it long enough to tell if that’s the case for the beta version. Last year I heard their software would try and guess what you are most likely to need access to offline and make sure it’s stored locally. That design does create the capacity for you to be surprised by how long it takes to access a file, or even to find you can’t access all your data. They’d take some time to download if you tried to open them, but it would be less hassle than using an external drive. Bitcasa could make them appear to be on your computer at all times so you could dig up an old song or photo with a few clicks. That trick could make it much easier to manage a vast movie, music or photo collection larger than your hard drive, for example. You can see them there using a file browser or a program’s open dialogue, but some files will be retrieved from the cloud when you try to open or access them. Bitcasa arranges for some of your data to be stored only in the cloud, not on your PC, but it creates the illusion that all your files are stored locally. The clever bit is what happens when you try and pile in more data than there is space for on your hard drive. Any time you save, copy, or paste new files into a cloudified folder they also uploaded. Cloudified folders are uploaded to Bitcasa’s cloud right away and get a Bitcasa logo added to their icons in the Finder. If you have large files and many folders, it may be smarter to run the rsync command individually on your subfolders e.g.Once you install Bitcasa it prompts you to choose which of your folders to “cloudify”. I had given up caring about those individual corrupt files (I just wanted to get the majority of files off the service), and using this method skips those corrupt files. I had a lot of files corrupted by bitcasa and they failed to download. It will take a while to download and you will see a lot of activity in the window. On a mac, the bitcasa drive is loaded to the /Volumes directory, so you can download your entire drive to your desktop by using something similar to the following command: rsync -aPu /Volumes/Bitcasa\ Drive/ ~/Desktop/BitcasaFiles Just drag and drop the folder.Īlternatively you don't need to drag and drop. The "" are there for example, don't type them. Just make sure you have an active internet connection and disable your computer from going to sleep. It's automated so you can set it and come back later to check it. Depending on the # of files and size of data you have, it may take awhile to finish. If it comes across problem files, it will check them a few times before moving on to the next file. RSYNC will check and download your files automatically into the folder you designated on your computer. Open Terminal from Spotlight and type the following: rsync -aPu It will say "All items are up to date" in the Bitcasa menu. Please confirm Drive has finished loading your data before starting RSYNC. To automate your download, you can use RSYNC in Terminal. The following is part of an email from their technical support in September 2015 There were many corrupt files)įollowing several support requests that didn't help, I received one that helped. It rarely worked, and it broke when trying to download a corrupt file (which Bitcasa had corrupted. After over a year trying to download many GBs of files from my Bitcasa drive I was losing my mind.
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