I read a few reviews of Sugar Sync last year and I had just finished tinkering with Dropbox and MobileMe. Both programs left me unsatisfied and I couldn’t come up with a good solution. MobileMe was slow and unstable. Drop Box had a clunky interface and lacked some critical features (albeit, it was beta).  Others, like Jungle Disk, were met with mixed reviews. I put the whole project off for a while.

After 30 days with Sugarsync…wow! No problems. What I dig about this software is that a physical file (the magic briefcase) resides on my hard drive and then uses the cloud to sync across the other computers. So far, four computers are syncing flawlessly. I think the “magic briefcase” is what makes this product standout against other cloud solutions. This, coupled with the iPhone application makes Sugarsync a new favorite. I can now access any file from my office on my iPhone. Sweet! Now, if I could just get Circus Ponies Notebook on my iPhone, the planets will have aligned. 

Of course, for a proper review, head on over to Mac Esq’s review. He also has some question and answers on Sugarsync. Bad news, since those posts, Mac Esq has turned his back on Sugar Sync and embraced Dropbox. 

But for our us, Sugarsync is more intuitive and works better than any other solution we have spent 30 days with. Of course, I am still in the honeymoon stage (and we don’t have the “over 25,000 files” problem that Mac Esq dealt with). I just purchased a year subscription and we will see how things go from here.

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