Now that multi-platform syncing agency has made with the liberated 2GB accounts, we intellection it merited a deeper look. Here’s how SugarSync backs up, shares, sends, and displays binary versions of your files.

As noted in our earlier post, SugarSync’s important disagreement from Dropbox is its fashion of operation. Rather than meet having digit azygos folder to alluviation your files into (even if that digit folder crapper be long with symbolic unification work-arounds), Dropbox is aimed at ultimate syncing—the aforementioned files are institute everyplace you go.

SugarSync lets you intend rattling careful on apiece system. Want the pictures and (some of) your penalization from your Mac at home, but the PDFs and Word docs from the Documents folder at the impact PC? You got it. Prefer to ready destined files online only? Go to it. For some, that’s a recognize taste of customization. SugarSync does impact a “Magic Briefcase” that gets synced to every system, including its iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile apps, but if that’s your identify of syncing, you’re meliorate soured using Dropbox.

Why? Because SugarSync’s liberated 2GB accounts are a noticeably limited in their uploading speed, and you crapper sync a peak of digit computers, nonnegative ambulatory devices, with that account. But if you aforementioned the category of fine-grain, folder-by-folder darken hardware that SugarSync’s offering, you could do a aggregation worse.

Here’s a journeying finished SugarSync’s desktop, web, and ambulatory usage. Click the thumbnails for descriptions and large watch options:

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