[rb2k_]

I have an account and try it every once in a while. It has a nice interface and I could really see myself using it. My current problems:

- It doesn't support symbolic links but requires you to put all the directories inside the special "AeroFS" directory

- There is only an option to add a 1 GB "cloud" storage. While it is not the primary use case, I'd love to be able to buy some more

- Last time I checked there was no way to install aerofs on a headless linux system (e.g. a NAS device with a JVM)

[weihan]

Co-founder of AeroFS here :-)

1. Symbolic link support is currently planned, I'd go to http://ae.ro/qc9Ey5 and upvote it. It'll allow us to notify you when it's done.

2. Bigger plans are in the works, stay tuned!

3. Headless support has been actually available for a while for most linux distributions, check out the "aerofs-cli" and "aerofs-sh" commands.

[bitops]

If you implement one feature, I will switch immediately: multiple accounts running at the same time.

I want to be able to sync my work stuff completely separate from my personal stuff. No "Shared Folders" solution or jazz like that. Dropbox seems totally unwilling to support this officially, so if you did, that'd be an awesome differentiator.

[StavrosK]

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but, last time I checked (a while ago) you could share different folders with different computers. For example, you could make a "work" share and sync it only with coworkers, and a "personal" share and sync it with your personal computers.

[nhashem]

The problem is if me and Joe use Dropbox for personal use, and then we come up with a great startup idea and want to start hacking on it. On like day 5 of working on this idea, you'll want to start sharing/saving some PDFs or excel sheets or something. Ideally you'd be able to create a new Dropbox for this project and run two clients on your machine, one for your personal Dropbox and one for your new project Dropbox, and Joe can do the same.

But because you can't run two clients at once, you can't do this. You can create "Personal" and "Project" folders in your existing Dropbox and sync to different machines, but Joe now needs to use your Dropbox account and he can't sync his personal account. Or you both use the web client, except you're basically using FreeDrive from 1999. Or you use an entirely different file sharing service like ZumoDrive, which is kind of silly.

I get that multi-client support for Dropbox is probably a niche feature and will probably lead to jerks like me using 5 accounts instead of 1, so they don't do it. And there are workarounds like Dropboxen that allow me to sort of have multiple Dropbox instances running on my machine if I have multiple user accounts. But man it'd be nice if multiple Dropbox instances running was a native feature instead of having the same, "Ok, I filled out the Articles of Organization and put them in my Dropbox so just refer to our filing number from there."; "Why don't you put them in MY Dropbox and YOU just refer it from there?" conversation with Joe.

[StavrosK]

I don't understand, why can't you just create shared folders in your single Dropbox account and share them with whomever you like?

[itsnotvalid]

There is an option too in the right-click menu for sharing a folder. They may just have missed it. But the same button on the web based interface is clear enough, I suppose.

[bitops]

The issue is that it's being shared from the same account. I know about Shared Folders and use them extensively.

In a nutshell, here's what I want: - Install Dropbox - configure account #1 : [e-mail] - configure account #2 : [e-mail]

I don't want anyone at work seeing my personal email because it is, well, personal. No-one at work should need to know about my personal stuff unless it really is personal. Dropbox doesn't seem to understand the value of this.

I want to keep my work life and my personal life separate and many new services don't seem to understand or value this.

[StavrosK]

Ah, now I see what you mean... I circumvented this by using my work email to have invitations sent to, but accepting them from my personal account. I'm not sure if the people in the share can see my email address, though.

[bitops]

That's what I want to avoid - I prefer to not have to think about it at all.

[aiscott]

This sounds like a pretty useful feature. I suggest going to their feature suggestion/vote page and listing it.

http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests

[cmer]

Most NAS have CPUs that don't easily run the JVM. I wish AeroFS could run on my Synology NAS. That would be the killer feature for me.

[rb2k_]

I personally have the WD MyBook live (http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/03/20/the-western-digital-my...), it has an 800 MHz APM82181 (PPC Architecture) with 256 MB RAM, that should run most headless file sync stuff :)