SugarSync Review

In today's world, the ability to access your files from multiple locations is an absolute must. Unfortunately, accomplishing this through a collection of CD's or flashdrives, combined with an ever growing number of emails to yourself can become a bit tedious.

Wouldn't it be helpful if there were a way to automatically synchronize your files?

SugarSync is the key.

With SugarSync, its easy to keep your files backed up and syncronized between computers, even if you're working on two completely separate networks.

**SugarSync Review**

Setup is really easy. Create an online account, download the SugarSync application to each computer you want to backup and/or synchronize and then select the folders you want.

That’s pretty much it. Every folder can be either backed up or synchronized, depending on what you need.

Your files are then stored in a secure encrypted account on the SugarSync server - which means you can get to them from anywhere you have internet access! The web interface also allows for easy file sharing and collaboration.

As a user, you can invite friends/family/colleagues to sign up for a free account, and then share one of your folders with them. If you decide you want to keep your work from being modified by other users, you can designate your files or folders as "read only," whilem aking them editable allows others to add to them - great for group prodjects.

Files are uploaded to SugarSync as soon as a new version is saved. From there they are redistributed to the computers connected to your account. If one of those computers isn't online at the moment, SugarSync will update them as soon as they connect to the internet.

SugarSync has a handy web interface, desktop application and also apps for several mobile clients like BlackBerry, iPhone and others. During the course of this SugarSync review, we'll take a look at each of them.

**SugarSync.com and The Desktop Client**

*SugarSync Review - The Online Interface*

When you log into SugarSync.com you are greeted by a list of computers and other important items, your available storage space and a few other goodies.

Selecting one of your connected computers allows you to review all of the files on that computer that are synced with the system. When viewing the files on a particular computer, you can easily download, move or copy anything you need.

SugarSync's online system also makes it easy to send your files to anyone you need. SugarSync will send an email to any address(es) you specify with a unique link to the file(s) you selected to share. This link will allow the recipient of the email to download your file, but only for 21 days – after that the link is disabled.

This way, if you want to email a couple dozen photos to your great aunt across the country, you don’t need to waste time attaching them all.

In addition to your synced computers, you also have the option to select your “Magic Briefcase,” your Mobile Photos and your Web Archive.

The Magic Briefcase is basically a folder that SugarSync creates on all of your computers that is always kept synchronized. It’s a nice, simple tool for users who don’t want to take the time to manually select folders to sync… all they need to do is drop them into the Briefcase and they are good to go.

Note: Placing files in the Briefcase does NOT copy them, it MOVES them completely.

The Mobile Photos section is pretty self explanatory… these are the pictures that you have taken from your mobile phone, which we’ll discuss a little more later on in our SugarSync review.

The Web Archive is a place to store files that you do not want synchronized with your computer. This a great tool for backing up files that you don't need to synchronize, just you know their safe.

*SugarSync Review - The Desktop Client*

SugarSync's desktop application allows you to do most of the same things as the web interface. You can see the different computers on your account, the Magic Briefcase and Web Archive - pretty much your whole account.

There are also convenient buttons for accessing the photo gallery, your online site and your shared folders. Sharing/sending files is also just as easy as it would be online - so the only time you really NEED the web interface is when you're at a computer that doesn't have SugarSync installed.

The "Manage Synced Folders" button is where the magic really happens. This is where you select the files you want to sync on this computer, as well as what they should be connected to on other computers. If you want to back somehting up, you an simply add it to SugarSync without connecting it to another folder on a different machine - this way it's uploaded and updated in real time. The entire interface is extremely user friendly, but if organizing different folders is more work than you are interested in, you can always just use the Magic Briefcase as described earlier.

*SugarSync For BlackBerry*

For me, the mobile apps are the fun part. SugarSync offers several mobile clients including support for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile devices, and Symbian – in addition to the ability to access your online account from pretty much any phone with a web browser.

From the SugarSync application you can do pretty much anything you want. Accessing computers and online files is a breeze, simply navigate to and select the file you need and SugarSync will download it to your phone and cache it for use.

If you have the right software, you can edit files from your phone (usinge “Docs-To-Go” to edit an MS Word document on a BlackBerry for example). Once you finish editing a file, SugarSync notes the change and asks if it should be uploaded.

Uploading files from your mobile device is also usefule. The only drawback (on a BlackBerry, at least) is that there's no option to select multiple files at once for uploading. This makes uploading, let’s say an photo or two that you want to share really quickly a breeze, but beyond that you will probably want to wait to transfer the files to your computer and upload them from there.

One of the real benefits of the mobile application is that if you know in advance that you want the pictures you are taking uploaded, you can fire up the application and select “Take photo,” which will launch your BlackBerry’s native camera application and upload any pictures you take from there (please note, only photos taken from within the SugarSync app are automatically uploaded) to you Mobile Photos folder, which is synchronized across all of your computers.

Viewing images from your device is equally simple. All of the images in a folder are chached on your phone, so you can scroll through them on the go. Each picture also has a “High Res” option in case you need to view in greater detail.

SugarSync is also capable of streaming music to your phone as well, so if you synchronize your iTunes library, you’ll be able to access it anywhere, without necessarily having to keep it all on your phone at once.

SugarSync offers several different price options depending on how much storage you need. Each plan includes a 30 day free trial, which is plenty of time to get comfortable with it before making any final decisions.

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Lynne and Chad are Online Business and Marketing Coaches, dedicated to helping internet marketers build their busninesses successfully. On their blog, they enjoy sharing different types of internet marketing tools and reviews - like thisSugarSync Review and other useful resources .

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