Tuesday, November 25

Storing multimedia files when no hard drive is available

With external hard drives in short supply, where can students store files critical to their projects when their borrowed cameras are due?

The UD Dropbox can help but has limits.  As described in the website,

The Dropbox software itself has limits on the amount of data that can be uploaded in a single dropoff. Even for browsers that support uploads larger than 2 GB, dropoffs may not exceed 10.0 GB per file, or 20.0 GB total for the entire dropoff.

The 2 GB limitation will support uploading many short video files.  Because the Dropbox won't ingest file folders, one can't simply upload the contents of the AVCHD folder from a camera's hard drivefile, but one could upload individual files.

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