Having ditched Dropbox (see earlier posts), I have tried Mediafire (also in an earlier post) and now, also, Gspace and Humyo.
Mediafire seems to me a bit tricky to use. You have to go through a sequence of steps to upload anything.
Humyo has a drag-and-drop method that seems like a good idea, except how do you drag something from your desktop (or another folder) on to an area of a web page that fills your screen? You'd have to resize the browser window each time you wanted to upload anything. Not very handy.
The easiest of all is Gspace. This presupposes that you have an account with Gmail, and it simply exploits the large amount of space that Gmail provides for its users. Gspace is a Firefox add-on (or add-in, or whatever they are called). You just select the file or folder you want to upload from a list on the left of your screen and click an arrow to move it to a panel on the right of the screen. Then it does its stuff. Simple.
With all of these services, though, there is waiting involved. Folders of media files can take a long time, all depending, of course, on your broadband speed.
The cloud is still a bit misty, but the fog is slowly clearing.
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