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Ever dreaming about keeping important files at your fingertips – anywhere. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers, so you are always accessing the latest documents, photos, and files.

Here’s one for you, FolderShare, to let you find, access, share your files anywhere, for free!

Foldershare is a peer-to-peer service that lets you share files
and folders on your PC with anyone connected to the Foldershare
service. It’s easy to use and offers industrial-strength security
control.

You can adminstrate Foldershare either from the desktop
client application or via the Foldershare website, but you can only add
or remove files to or from libraries (Foldershare’s name for shared
folders) using the desktop application.

Each library’s settings can be customised individually, including whether you want it to use automatic or manual replication.

You
can choose whether individual users – added via email at your
invitation – have reader, contributor, editor or senior editor access
rights, and you can add and remove users or change their settings at
will.

Files can also be accessed by logging in to the Foldershare
site and clicking on the ‘placeholder’ file links. This will initiate a
download from any available PCs on your peer network.

However, as
the Foldershare service stores no data, at least one of your peer
group’s PCs must be running and able to accept incoming connections.

Foldershare is also ideal for
business users who need to share files between locations, but can’t
afford a virtual private network. Clients are authenticated using RSA
key certificates before a connection is allowed and file transfers are
made using 256bit AES encryption. Incoming ports are only opened for
the duration of a transfer.

2005 Nov, Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider. Deal aligns with Windows Live goal of connecting customers to the people and information that matter most to them.

Then Foldershare became free!

• Share files up to 2 GB in size
• Unlimited file transfers – no limits on quantity or size of files transferred
• Any file type – files are synced and transferred in their original format

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