Cloud services like OneDrive and Dropbox are dead-simple to set up and make multi-device file syncing an absolute breeze—but those services force you to stash your files on the company’s third-party ...

I love Dropbox, but there are some files I'm just not comfortable keeping in "the cloud," like my tax returns and bank statements. I also have huge media files that I'd like to sync between my ...

On each machine that you want to share files, enter a directory of your choice, then run a command to clone the repository in ...

It can be an exhausting job to copy files from one computer to another, whether it’s a new laptop or that processing monster you always wanted. Without the right means or methods, sometimes simple ...

A few weeks ago, I spoke at Case Western at a two-day symposium about “Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship.” The talks were engaging and the subject—collaboration—is something that’s dear ...

Taking back ownership of your data is rough. I’ve been trying to de-Google my life for almost a year, and I still haven’t mastered it. I still need my Google account and Gmail address to use my ...

Google announced its plans to transition users of its consumer file syncing desktop service, Backup and Sync, onto a new unified app that both consumers and business clients can use called Drive for ...

I've scoured the web but can't seem to find an answer to this. What works: The users Documents are redirected to the server and the Y: drive is mapped. What doesn't work: Offline files. The specified ...

To sync files between two computers, you must connect both to the same network and make sure you've set the correct installation options for each computer. The best way to do this is to uninstall ...