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- jesushchrist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I'm a notorious early adopter of all things Apple and I got Dot Mac on day one and yes, I'll admit it, I'm an Apple fanboy... but Dot Mac sucks. 30GB iDisk or not, it's going to be a sad, sad keynote if Jobs spends more than five seconds talking about the wonders of Dot Mac. Unless they make it free, of course.
- MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I did the test in my copy of Parallels, and it doesn't show 30GB capacity. It shows 7.79GB capacity. Keep in mind that I have a standard .mac account with 1GB of space.
HOWEVER, it also says that I have used 2.83GB of storage, but in reality I have only used 453MB. We should wait until MacWorld to see if there is an upgrade, because this just seems too varied in our results, as well as in the huge difference in what windows is reporting I am using and what I KNOW I am using.
Though it is not fake, it may not be accurate. No digg from me, but no bury either until the issue is figured out. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16If they keep the price the same I couldn't care if it's one terabyte, well maybe if it's one terabyte, but you catch my drift. Apple needs to make the damn thing cheaper.
- rkettner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Maybe windows just sees the total free space of the shared drive your account is on... as odd as that may be - it would explain the different numbers.
- orgazmo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Dugg down for the looping Mac Ads... we get it... you love Apple
- Frozo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For all those claiming that this huge disk upgrade is for Time Machine... Think about how long it takes you to upload just a 5 MB file to iDisk. Now imagine your entire Home folder going up there. You could be at it for 24 hours!
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"-Requires proprietary software interface"
Woah now, let's knock that off as a bad feature. It uses WebDAV, which is a very standard interface for remote file access. Windows and Mac OS X all have clients built right into the OS.
Other than that, it's pretty much spot on for why .Mac blows. - MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7your right on the money here brianzimm. Just checked your claim and yes, the Properties window within Parallels for my C drive (the parallels VM drive) shows..
used: 2.83GB
free: 4.95GB
capacity: 7.79GB
properties for the .mac drive.
used: 2.83GB
free: 4.95GB
capacity: 7.79GB
exactly the same. I am using the latest version of Parallels, and I am assuming that the original poster of this story is using the same.
magsy1, post a video of you getting the properties of your main parallels vm, C drive, and the properties of the iDisk at the same time, show both and the values. - smcavoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8thanks for clearing that up.
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5hey, that could be a video of his roomba, you don't know!
- magsy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh...
I see it now, you are right!
But I did managed to upload a HUGE file and then access it from Finder, then maybe it is only a bug...
:(
If it is, I'm sorry.
(If we all stand still and try to listen, we might hear many LOLs going trough iChat in California, now...) - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I think you're account's just ***** up. Nothing more, nothing less.
Also, I have a 1.4TB .Mac account. Of course, I fake it by running my own .Mac server :) - rooskie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4.Mac's iDisk is FAT formatted, so if your "4 gig" file was more than 2^32 bytes long, then it will self-corrupt. Try it with multiple 2 gig files.
- magsy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Well... I haven't paid any extra, but still me and all my friends have 30GIGs.
I tried uploading a 4GIG-file now and it did work! :D
But, it somehow got corrupted or something. The info of the file after uploading was Zero-bytes (yes it was visible in Finder, too).
I checked the iDisk properties in Windows and it said that I have used 6GIGs, so I guess I can upload BIG files, but not use them before Macworld (?) - Bootes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On Windows my iDisk drive has always shown the size of my HD, 120GB. Hopefully there is an upgrade though, especially a speed upgrade.
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uh, no it's not. There's no filesystem involved at all. They use WebDAV and it's entirely up to the client to support the size of integer that comes in over the HTTP headers. That's why my custom .Mac server only reports 8.9GB free when I have about 890GB free. It's all overflow, so I had to hack mod_dav to send 1/100th the free space sizes.
- ShaunO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@nonsecu
it's WebDAV .. what IE calls Web Folders. It's a real, bona fide standard. and it has a nifty web front-end at idisk.mac.com/username/ too.
kinda handy when you least want it to be. and usually kinda slow under the same circumstances .. - brianzimm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check your free space available on your main hard drive and it will match your .mac account free space available.
- magsy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it doesn't match at all
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3100 clams is still way to much to pay for .mac, this coming from a current yet soon-to-be-former subscriber.
- drcreek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes but over time once it all uploaded it wont take long to just alter the changes.
in that respect it's perfect. - scratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So funny.. I'd take the option that Windoze is confused, before I would believe that Apple are dense enough to install a system early by mistake, and then try to 'hide' it.
As EricJD says.. Dugg becuase of the Irony. Hilarious! - OutlawSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@nonsecu
It mounts like anything else. You don't have to use the GUI. You can write scripts to do all sorts of fun... if that's your cup of tea. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What you're doing is called hyping... Just so you know, hundreds of morons just like you have been put into loads of trouble becuase of stuff like this.
- magsy1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Here is a video of the uploading of a 4GB big file:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipfDCl8gAw - sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could this be a precursor to a free .Mac account, with this new 30GB as a pay based upgrade.
- iQuinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if real, I am so getting .mac
- mvanhorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iRobot, eh? Must be a very legal back-up copy you have there.
- Radan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, maybe (if this is true that is) that is why they are upgrading it? Who said that they won't upgrade the bandwidth if they upgrade the storage capacity? But really, if they give .Mac a serious boost, it will be a great feature to use with Time Machine in a very Appleish way.
- landyl, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8hey, thanks for the conversion.
but seriously, 30 GIGS?!! something can't be right there, apple would never do that..... although i hope it is true, i need that much storage!
also i hope you don't need to pay for an upgrade. - MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2do you work for apple, are you making an announcement that this is official?
I have a 1GB plan too, and it only shows 7.7GB for me. It is too varied, as everyone seems to be having different sizes.
I reserve all judgement on the idea that they are upgrading until it actually is announced. - pb3623, on 10/12/2007, -0/+130GB storage (assuming this major upgrade is in the stars) at T1 speeds (I am on a 15Mbps cable connection but .Mac servers are notoriously slow), giving them credit for a full 1.544Mbps.
I'll have my backup completed in just under 1 day, 22 hours, and 22 minutes. That's a hell of a backup strategy... more like infinity since files would be constantly changing during these two days.
@Flowbee, I have tried Transmit, Path Finder, and transferring the files via WebDAV in Ubuntu... it's just not a practical way to store files with any degree of reliability. I can't even download 2MB attachments on my .Mac email without grilling a 30 oz porterhouse to well done. - mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1even if they upped it to 1 gig.... it wouldn't matter. The speed is still pathetic. It takes me a few seconds to transfer my contacts to my cell phone over bluetooth... with speeds peaking at 5kbps. But over my broadband connection that usually gives me over 300kbps up.... it takes me over an hour. Go figure.
- constantine11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I haven't signed up for .mac because the $99 price doesn't seem justified based on the services currently offered. It would be better if Apple offered the current service for free (adding 2GB to 3GB of iDisk / email storage) with the option to access advanced features for $99.
- Flowbee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not the iDisk server that's slow, it's Finder. Try connecting to your iDisk with Transmit (http://www.panic.com/transmit/)... watch your upload and download speeds improve dramatically.
- Samurai_Joe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this has always been like this. It mirrors the amount of space you have on you HD.
Right now my iDisk (through Windows) says I have 38.2 gigs and 6GB left, now that's exactly whats on my c:drive.
I'm pretty sure I noticed the same thing when I first mounted the drive on my Windows PC a few years back. - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Or, you know, perhaps Windows is just reporting the size wrong. Because that's never possible, right? It's always gotta be some big secret "The Man" is hiding from you.
-sigh- - virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pshht... if you do the Day-After-Thanksgiving sale, you could get a 250 GB ext. HDD for 50 bucks!
(Sitting next to mine right now :) ) - EricJD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3dugg because of the irony of this.
- gothick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+030Gb? What would be the point? It's so cripplingly slow that to transfer half a gig takes most of a weekend. By the time you manage to put 30Gb on the thing, we'll be using quantum computers...
- jmorrison0722, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a windows bug. I tried it myself and the iDisk showed up at 5.9 GB available, which just so happened to be the exact size of my PC hard drive's available space. I tried again on another PC and the available jumped to 22GB, which, you guessed it, is exactly the same size of the available space on the PC.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I could've done without the propaganda.
This demonstration could've been done in half the time if half the time wasn't spent mousing over the Apple add playing in the background and playing with the zoom effects. - magsy1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3well there you go...
This it's not fake, one of my friends have a 60GB big iDisk (originally 1GB) - windohs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i checked too and its true
it says used space 159gigs (even though i've only used about 40mb in reality)
free space 66.9 gigs
total space 226 gigs - hunkpr, on 12/22/2007, -0/+0__________________________________________________
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Turn any shoes into height increase elevator shoes. - inexplicable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Instinctively speaking, it would be a pretty incredible 'one more thing' if Apple offered to Back-up your entire HD to their servers for the cost of a .mac subscription and the purchase of Leopard. That would explain the mirroring of drive sizes and even the purchase Apple made of a large data center some time ago (Google it - I originally saw it on /.). But in reality the data center was probably for the iTunes store and the logistics of this with modern Internet connections makes it seem unlikely. In the U.K. we're starting to see up to 10 Mbit on ADSL, 10 on cable and up to 24 on LLU, but the upload speeds are still very slow and many connections are capped which makes backing up that 80 Gb or so a pipe-dream. Nice one though!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Uh, no, try again: http://ungeni.us/section/opinion/idiots_jumping_on_digg_bandwagons
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