File Sharing Question

[nickerjones]

I work for a company in Oklahoma. I am working out of state. I have to find documents at the courthouse and get them to people back in Oklahoma. It's a pain to have to search through emails and reply with the documents. Is there any thing I can use to upload photos or copies of documents where these guys can access it and download the image from that site? If there are a lot of them which one is the best? Which ones are free ? Which ones are free and the best? Thank you

[nickerjones]

also if I could password protect each folder.. Like say Mark's stuff goes in a Mark Folder that Mark can access but John cant . John has his own folder that mark can't access and so forth.

[silentsim]

Dropbox is your friend!

[Galakanokis]

DropBox

Google Drive

Box. Box was/is offering 50GB free to XDA/Android users.

All should have the ability to make certain folders private or public to certain users. basically you just email the link/permissions to access the folder.

[psyang]

I know dropbox doesn't support password-protected folders. Not sure of the others.

[Milt Schmidt]

You could go all out and use truecrypt to create an encrypted container for the files and share that over Dropbox. It's a bit of a learning curve though, here's a tutorial:

http://www.howtogeek.com/108501/the-...ith-truecrypt/

Milt

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Milt Schmidt

You could go all out and use truecrypt to create an encrypted container for the files and share that over Dropbox. It's a bit of a learning curve though, here's a tutorial:

http://www.howtogeek.com/108501/the-...ith-truecrypt/

Milt

Or just zip the files with a password. Zip-file password encryption is, surprisingly, extremely robust. And everyone has an unzip util baked into their system, so no need for third party software.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by psyang

I know dropbox doesn't support password-protected folders. Not sure of the others.

Just share the folders. They would need an account though.

[LIP MAN]

Just a forewarning, Dropbox puts your files in a US server. Now, for example, in Alberta my files can't be stored in a US server, or a non-Alberta server for legal reasons. I'd look into it, as those are sensitive files, and laws vary from State to State.

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Originally Posted by Milt Schmidt

You could go all out and use truecrypt to create an encrypted container for the files and share that over Dropbox. It's a bit of a learning curve though, here's a tutorial:

http://www.howtogeek.com/108501/the-...ith-truecrypt/

Milt

Truecrypt is the best.

[J Diddy]

Citrix Sharefile is what we use at our company.

I used leapfile at a previous company.

Both work great but not free.

[nickerjones]

I used dropped box. I only need to store the docs for a short amount of time. The time it takes for someone to download them to their computer. However I have 8-10 office landmen who might need probates/missing documents or whatnot.. So I find them, upload them, let them download them and then remove them.

[FlameOn]

Dropbox is great, if you are only using word documents and the like Google drive is great for that. If you are hosting images you can use image hosting sites like imgur can't you?

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

I used dropped box. I only need to store the docs for a short amount of time. The time it takes for someone to download them to their computer. However I have 8-10 office landmen who might need probates/missing documents or whatnot.. So I find them, upload them, let them download them and then remove them.

Leapfile and ShareFile send links to the files via email. You receive an email back when the file has been downloaded by a specific user. You can set deadlines for how long the file is available for. You can even send someone a link to upload a file to your sharefile/leapfile even if they don't have an account.

Way better than an ftp as you don't have to manage files or users manually.