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Recommendations for a web-based file storage provider? ED-Never mind.

Update: at work we're blocking every site I've tried. Looks like I'll be going with the USB flash drive after all. That guarantees I'll leave it on whichever computer I used last. Crud.

I have a personal project I'd like to be able to work on from both work and home. This looks like a good opportunity to investigate web-based file storage systems, as opposed to using a flash drive. I've never had a reason to look at these tools before now.

I'll be the only one working on this project. I'll be using Windows computers at each end, if that makes any difference.

I don't expect to need more than a couple of hundred megabytes; probably less. The files will be mostly text; no pictures, music, or other multimedia files are involved. There's nothing confidential or proprietary about the data, should it escape / be liberated into the wild.

I'd prefer to avoid installing a local client application, if possible. I'd prefer a service that has file storage as its primary function, and doesn't do too many other things like e-mail, social networking, content publication, etc.

Obviously, I'd prefer something free.

A bit of web searching turned up several popular options. Unfortunately, the TR spam filter is preventing me from listing them by name. Do you have any preferences?

Thanks.

Anyhow, since you're going to be using Windows, why not look at Microsoft
Skydrive? I think new folks get like 5 or 7 gigs space, I got lucky and was
grandpawd in for 24 gigs! Anyway, it works pretty well, plus you can use
the online versions of Office Web Apps...free as well.

I had a heck of a time with my original post, battling the spam filter over some unidentified term. I think I've figured out which one was giving it heart-burn.

So far I've seen decent reviews of Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, SpiderOak, and Box-dot-Com. (I think the last one is what gave the spam filter indigestion.) I have name recognition of only the first two, although the other three turn up regularly in my browsing.