Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (64-bit) User Reviews

• 1.0 stars

  "Not worth the time, wait for HTML 5."

  September 1, 2010  |   By danieltanguay

  Version: Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (64-bit) 2.3.392

  Pros

  It uploads fine.

  Cons

  It is painfully slow at everything regardless of how buff your system and internet is.

  Summary

  Great concept but the software will soon e obsolete with HTML5 coming out. All of this stuff will be able to be done through drag and drop in the browser. Save yourself the hassle and wait.

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• 4.0 stars

  "An effective way to connect to the cloud."

  June 17, 2010  |   By Raithlin

  Version: Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (64-bit) 2.1.357

  Pros

  Once you're up and running, it's as easy as drag-and-drop to copy files across.

  Cons

  Not so simple to set up, and custom windows don't look so great.

  Summary

  Gladinet Cloud Desktop is an effective way to connect to Google Docs, SkyDrive, Picasa, etc. but took a bit of setting up. On first try Google Docs failed on me, but Google Apps, SkyDrive and Picasa gave no such problems.
  
  Once you have gone through the motions and have all your settings right, operation becomes simple. It was great to see all my documents sitting in Explorer instead of having to login to the various sites, and the program asked me if I wanted to run scheduled backups, which is great. All in all then, an application that does what it says without too much fuss.

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• 3.0 stars

  "Good app, not quite ready for primetime"

  April 12, 2009  |   By ax89

  Version: Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (64-bit) 0.8.71

  Pros

  - can access my Skydrive as another folder
  - relatively seamless integration into Windows environment

  Cons

  - once the systray icon would not respond and after I killed it it would not restart. I had to reboot to fix it.
  - I uploaded a lot of images, deleted one and replaced it - that image is now corrupt. Will have to upload that image again.
  - too slow

  Summary

  Good first step to integrating "the cloud" to computing. But it's a bit slow and has a few bugs. Although I d/l "Gladinet Cloud Desktop (64-bit) 0.8.71" it is running as a 32-bit app: GladinetClient.exe * 32 as reported by Windows task manager, so it really isn't a 64-bit app. That's misleading.
  
  I look forward to seeing the bugs I encountered fixed (see Cons).

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