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Use Humyo with care

Just a small caveat if you are think of taking up Humyo.com's offer of 30BG free online storage. The web-based access  seems OK (though note that 25GByte of the storage used has to be multimedia files) but I hit a slight snag when trying out the PC client, which addresses the online storage as another drive. This is assigned the letter H by default.
Everything worked fine until I plugged a flash drive into a hub attached by XP machine. It registered the drive but I couldn't access it until I closed the Humyo link. The flash drive then listed happily when addressed as H.
By this time I had forgotten that I was editing a document stored on the Humyo drive. All was well until I tried to save it, when Word crashed and lost my document with a day's work on it. Happily I was able to retrieve it by cannibalising two tmp files.  This was not Humyo's fault but it does show the pitfalls of working directly from remote storage: best work from a local copy if there is any chance of your link going down.
The original error may have arisen because XP assigned the hub a set of drive letters before anything was plugged in. Humyo is trying to reproduce the error, and will produce a fix if necessary. It should not stop you from using Humyo, so long as you are aware of it.

Comments

wondert if you cab store an iso file on it and use vm to run a remote operating system from it.. and store any changes,, to the remote location

Posted by trying | July 23, 2008 4:01 AM

With Humyo you can't download an entire folder at one time, this is rubbish!

Posted by James Gregg | December 15, 2008 11:54 PM

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