The Cloud is the future! Except…

[Steve Connor]

Wetransfer has been experiencing downtime too over the last few days, is there something going on I wonder?

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Chris Harlan]

[Charlie Austin] “… when it doesn’t work. As i write this, YouSendIt, which tons of people rely on, is down. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Including mine, as I can’t get to the VO I just read to cut into the spot that needs to go out now. Apparently WireDrive was down off and on yesterday as well. Yeah, I want my ability to work and meet deadlines tied to the vagaries of the internet. Not.
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Been there. Feel your pain. I know that doesn’t help. But, yeah.

[John Davidson]

Aigh! I just did a test upload and the upload works – just the download fails. That’s totally not scary. At least FTP still works.

Stupid interwebs!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Charlie Austin]

[John Davidson] “Aigh! I just did a test upload and the upload works – just the download fails. That’s totally not scary. At least FTP still works.

Stupid interwebs!”

Yep. I can see that the file is there, I just can’t get it. And the best part is that the narrator basically hit send, put on his coat, and is driving somewhere and can’t just email it or something. Wheee. I can’t wait for the “Our activation server is down. Please wait an indeterminate amount of time while we try to fix it” message when I fire up my shiny new cloud activated NLE. You know, the one I will never in a million years use.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “Been there. Feel your pain. I know that doesn’t help. But, yeah.”

Fortunately this isn’t a “have to get it on air now!” deadline, but it still sucks. Oh well…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Joseph W. bourke]

Charlie –

Have you tried SoShare? It’s found at SoShareIt.com, and it lets you send up to a TB for free. You create an account – free – then you just email the link to the receiving party. I’ve used it on several large projects recently, and it works like a charm!

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Gary Huff]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “Have you tried SoShare? It’s found at SoShareIt.com, and it lets you send up to a TB for free. You create an account – free – then you just email the link to the receiving party. I’ve used it on several large projects recently, and it works like a charm!”

Joseph, I signed up based on your recommendation, but haven’t used it yet. Glad to see you still pimping it, because I plan to try it with the very next client who already doesn’t have a pre-set solution I have to use.

[Michael Hancock]

I had an instance where SoShareIt was down for a day. Sent a file to the client and the link was dead when they got it. I couldn’t log in and see that the file had uploaded, either. The next morning it was live again. Like anything – have a backup plan waiting. If a file just has to be there I send it through a combination of YouSendIt, SoShareIt, WeTransfer and/or FTP.

But SoShareIt was great when I had 24GB to send to somebody – took less than a day to upload and deliver.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Charlie Austin]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “Have you tried SoShare? It’s found at SoShareIt.com, and it lets you send up to a TB for free. You create an account – free – then you just email the link to the receiving party. I’ve used it on several large projects recently, and it works like a charm!
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Heard of them, but no. This problem is with the senders service, though I use yousendit on occasion We actually use Interdubs for our client approval and general transfer service, as we need the security features. They are, in a word, awesome. Not free, but waaaay cheaper than WireDrive, Beam and other similar services. Thanks for the heads up though.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Craig Seeman]

It was so much more reliable in the old days when you’d just wrap up the dub and UPS or FedEx would lose the package for you… Or the client wasn’t there to get the package and had to wait an extra day to get it.

All time best story was when a shipper lost a 1″ master which had to be rush shipped without a protection… and have it show up in the office 4 years later with a shipping label from Tokyo… this was a New York to New Jersey package!