I have some pictures that I would like to share, but I want the input to be as close as possible to the output.
I've tried Dropbox which seemed to lose 0.5MP on my 2MP pictures and around 2MP on my 10MP pictures.
Any ideas on what I can use to send them?
When you say share, do you mean permanently, or do you just want to send them to a particular person as a one-off?
On SkyDrive they have a tickbox option when uploading images, you can let them be un-compressed.
By default someone viewing them gets a compressed one, until they click view original.
I gave up on dropbox after their horrific security pauxpas.
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Mehta23 (27-06-2013)
They had a security problem?Originally Posted by TheAnimus
yup and wow, even for me, I don't know why I thought to spell faux pas like that.
DropBox is a strange firm... I don't like them. I don't like them when I wear my business hat, or developer hat.
They spend more time talking about things which aren't relivent to their service, the fact they bang on endlessly about Python, even hiring the benevolant dictator for life.
I think, in part due to how their viral growth referal thing worked (link a friend, get some free space!) they have a large fanbase who drown out critics and redact wikipedia.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/22/tech...ords/index.htm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20...word-required/
In a nutshell I don't think they have any credability. I don't care if they have grown up a bit now. It should have been secure from day 1. Google and MS have offerings which are just as attractive on price, MS's offering I think is technically much better too.
I turn the question round a bit, what advantage does DropBox have? None! Does it have a questionable history, yup!
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CAT-THE-FIFTH (27-06-2013)
If it's just to a few people and they want to view them locally, just zip them up and upload. The compression aspect is pointless, but it'll ensure the files stay unaltered.
Disagree when you buy in to a cloudy platform, it is meant to make things easier. Zipping up and such isn't easier!
Moving to a better platform, or even flckr/picassa that is specialist.
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Eh?
It depends how you want to get them to the other person. If I want to sent 100 images to a friend, then zipping and linking that is by far the easiest for both us is. More so considering every modern OS has antive zip support.
One file to deal with at each end rather than messing about saving multiple ones. Double so if working through the browser (seriously, I hate multi-file transfers in a browser).
If you want a photo album or something though - sure, useless. But that's not what I was suggesting
I'd disagree.
SkyDrive / Google Drive allow you to upload a folder, and have it downloaded as a zip or individual files.
I'm wearing my programmer hat, what is best, is good, what isn't best, is bad. Zipping the file on DropBox is bad. You've removed a bunch of the data you wanted to share, the ability to jump in to one file etc is gone.
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Don't disagree with anything you've said there really. I just use the cloud to transfer a fair amount of images around that's used for batch processing at the 'other end'. Zipping (with password protection) has always been the no nonsense approach for us.
I guess it's because the additional features like jumping to individual files isn't important for what we're using it for - it would just never be used. Old habits I suppose.
zipping with password protection is only suitable for preventing people opening by acident, should never be used for security of any real kind....
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Oh common....you should know me better than that!
edit - I'm currently working on a PHP project. Let it all out. Don't hold back
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09...of-bad-design/
It's fractal-bad, the closer you look, the worse it is.
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