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Dropbox's solution was significantly more streamlined than any of the others. You installed it and it just worked as the saying goes.


Was the web interface there from the start?

If it is the case, you did not even have to install it.

Dropbox did not only solve 'local file system'-mirroring, but (legal) file sharing in general.




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