DD,
You want to upload files to Dropbox, but don't want the files in/under the Dropbox (folder)....
Maybe I misunderstood but that makes no sense at all...

If you want to upload a file to dropbox, then you need to upload it to.. errmmm... dropbox...
Simply copy those files to your local Dropbox folder and the Dropbox local app will upload it.

The downside that Dropbox doesn't allow multiple local folders to be synces can very easily be solved by using hard links.

Using a program like offered here isn't a solution at all for this. That's the completely wrong program for that.

TK, yes, that's exactly what it feels like they are doing. While I'm kind of sort of OK with them temporarily storing a file on the boot SSD (that fits) while they upload it in pieces, raising the temp of my M.2 boot SSD to within 5 degrees if its unhappy place and holding it there is unacceptable. It has never gotten anywhere near that hot in the year it's been installed.

Additionally, the files I'm interesting in uploading and storing without syncing are about 120GB each. What happens if they don't fit on the SSD? What does it do then?

And to reply to Oscar, you clearly didn't understand what it was I'm trying to accomplish. I'm paying Dropbox $100/year for 1TB of storage, and currently using about 10% of that. I want to upload about 1/4 TB of backup files without having them on my boot drive and without having them sync. Just store them on Dropbox. This software seemed like the ideal way to do that until it did a bunch of unexpected things.

Cary,
It is very logical that that is not possible if you think about it.
When you want to transfer, where does the data needs to go? It always have to go thru your own computer, before it can be uploaded to the other cloud service.
So, no local program wil be able to do that without storing the data somewhere locally (physically on your disc, or in memory).
Only, and only(!), if said cloud services support up or downloading from other cloud services _directly_ using their own temporary storage, something like that might be possible to do/initiate from a local running program.

Kevin M Maloney, 'non-commercial use' is a common statement in all GOTD offers. As for this particular one, please contact the developer.
We apologize for inconvenience.

Mark,

I had the same thought and was interested too. Finally found this on the site: Pro Version
Get all the features of Air Live Drive in the pro version for one year or lifetime (1 licence per device).
Not such a good deal if I have to pay 2, 3, or 4 times. One time per device.

Jim

Karen Stavert, Can you download from other sites? if so, try using a different browser. If all else fails, power off your pc, modem, router, everything - wait a few minutes, then power all back on.

krypteller, my favourite browser is also Vivaldi

i've rebooted my PC a bazillion times..

Tried different browsers and cleared cache and cookies

I've used Vivaldi, Chrome, Epic, Firefox and all give me the
very same message...

the ONLY difference is our wifi.

makes no sense

jj juice, i've rebooted my PC a bazillion times..

Tried different browsers and cleared cache and cookies

I've used Vivaldi, Chrome, Epic, Firefox and BlueMoon and
all give me the very same message...

the ONLY difference is our wifi.

makes no sense

Karen Stavert,
It is strange: switching the way of contact the internet and no GOTD.
All the other sites are OK?
Like Krypteller say, clear a lot of things, also cookies of GOTD.
Also look at flushdns: https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+To+Clear+Your+DNS+Cache
or: https://www.technipages.com/flush-and-reset-the-dns-resolver-cache-using-ipconfig
DNS: maybe you DNS of your IP-connection can be a problem.
Maybe is here an answer: https://forum.peplink.com/t/manual-dns-for-3g-4g-connections-how-to/1478
I do know a someone: he did get a new ISP and it was slow, very slow. I altered the DNS of the network-card and after that is was much better. Sometimes you can change it in the router itself.
Some info about testing: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
and: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16372/find-a-faster-dns-server-with-namebench/

Karen Stavert,

Ok, if you want- let's do some troubleshooting.

First- do you mean *downloading* or *installing*?

And then, next question- what happens. "Nothing" isn't the best answer. Be as specific as possible.

J, i mean downloading... there are no issues with
installing any software.

what happens is i get a page from GAOTD that
reads:

404
Oooops!
Sorry, the page you're looking for isn't here.
Maybe you've clicked on an obsolete link or mistyped the URL, or maybe it's just us.

Don't fret!
Just go to our home page and proceed from there.

(here;'s the page link:
http://files3.giveawayoftheday.com/AirLiveDrive/AirLiveDrive113-db37gh.zip?hash=81539c328c08078a0c7e1277464e0560)

Karen Stavert,
Could it be that with your new internet-connection you get a "free" anti-virus program that blocks GAOTD? I am not referring to a program which needs to be installed on your PC perse, rather, some isp's have a AV on the server side. Check with the isp.

karen, is there a difference between direct downloading and downloading by the link, after you ask for a mail to download it?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kygqxf1n2yflxmj/Downloaden.png

karen,

Huh. well, it's hard for me to troubleshoot because there's a couple different ways to get the link (logging in through FB or using email). So not quite sure what exactly you see. Looking at the link I got yesterday
through email, it looks like this:
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/download/?c=930410292df3...(really long hash number you don't need)

Yours looks very different with that 'files3' prefix. Are you on a work computer that might have security software that would change the link?

Maybe try to enter the link manually? That's a pain, I know, but something to try if you really want to figure it out.

Lastly, maybe try in incognito mode?

That's about all I got at the moment.

GAotD has a lot of steps to actually get the link. Log in w/either FB or email, get a link one of those ways, etc. That link you displayed, is it from a GAotD email? What were the steps you took?

Ootje, GAOTD links seem to be the only links on the internet
that i have problems with.

i can download files from any other site - no problems

thank you
Karen

TK, i clicked on your edited link and got this:

Oooops!
Sorry, the page you're looking for isn't here.
Maybe you've clicked on an obsolete link or mistyped the URL, or maybe it's just us.

Don't fret!
Just go to our home page and proceed from there.

thank you

Karen

Karen Stavert, no.

Antonio, You can easily add an exception to antivirus programs/firewall so they won't scan what you don't want scanned. So this is not an issue at all.

1) is indeed a small issue (but not this program's fault). You can either disable the creation of thumbnails, or let it create the thumbnails and make sure you don't remove the thumbnail file/storage.
2) certainly not this program's fault, and easily solved by disabling that in your virus scanner for those drives/folders.

tom, not all user have the knowledge to understand this issue and fix this, this program must, at least, give some hint about how to use it the good way, helping the users to fix this issues.
No tips/hint at all in the program.
Myself i already added exception to antivirus and set the directory and sub-directory as "document" in windows, so will avoid create thumb by default in directory with images/videos.
Im not 100% sure, maybe the devs can set it tho be the default when create the virtual drive in windows.

I would have liked at least the devs to respond here about this kind of issue, sadly, no response at all.

Di, I completely agree with you. I also bought a unlimited license with 50% discount, based on your comment and I don't regret it at all.

Wolf, how to get 50% discount?

See their website.
Mac version is available.

George James james Ducas,
you're (can be) saving space because not all the files in the cloud t need to be downloaded, to see or use them.
Only the file you want to use (eg: opening a Word document in Word) will be (needs to be) downloaded. The other files you'll see listed in Windows Explorer, just like on any other (local) HDD, but they don't necessarily need to be downloaded. Also note that you don't need the specific Cloud apps to be running (which do require all those files to exist locally too). As such, you save space because all files stay in the cloud (until you 'open' one of them... then that one needs to be -temporary- downloaded).

Jean Baljuw, I think you completely misread that description and the point of this program.
It states "...._ON_ the files in the cloud".
Which means any LOCAL tool or program will see the files in the cloud as if they are on a normal (local) HDD.

Jean Baljuw,

Yeah, I agree with Oscar, I'm not sure where you're coming from. I read this program to do this:

Let's say I have a GDrive account. Let's say I'm working on a Word doc and want to save it to drive. Normally, I'd have to: Save it to the desktop, open Chrome, open Drive, log in, click-drag my file over to GDrive.

With this program, I just: Click save (or save as, depending), then GDrive will be among my list of places to save. Just like- Desktop, documents, my E/F/G drives, etc. 1-2-3.

Then to open that Word doc, I might be able to do it straight from "My computer". I won't have to open chrome, go to GDrive, log in, click-drag the file over to my pc. And so on.

Pretty handy, if you ask me. One of the programs does this already. One Drive I want to say. But to have the others would be great!

J, A quick way to access GDrive is to use a ChromeBook - as soon as the Internet is connected, GDrive is 1 of the default options.

Othello86,

Yeah... but I'm not going to buy/use a chromebook just to have this functionality....

Jean Baljuw,

Ok, now I get it. You're just saying- "don't use cloud services, keep your property on your computer".

Yeah, I agree with that, but there are times when it comes in handy. I have a lot of photos I want to share with people. On G/drive I can upload them and get a link to give to friends. I'm not going to use Facebook or whatever, because of the "army mentality" that you're talking about, and not all of my friends are on Facebook.

Sometimes I may want to have access to files when I'm traveling. I could put them on a flash drive, or I could put them on the cloud and access them on the road.

There's lot's of reasons to use these services without 'signing your life over to cloud services'.

And honestly- the world is already very very connected. Did you make your own clothes? Grow your own food? No, you rely on other people to do that for you. You went to a store and bought them. Someone made the bags you carried them home with. The world is very inter-connected.

TK,

Does Gdrive have a client program? I never knew that, never heard of it. But anyway, that's just GDrive, what about the others? I kind of like having access to many of them all through one interface/application. I can use them for different purposes- Work requires one, my personal use another, I have all these new ones I've never heard of but am interested in because anything that's not Google is a plus.

"Shooting yourself in the foot to treat a blister" seems dramatic, lol... I'd say just 'taking the long way around'...And like I said, I never knew there was an interface.

muhozah, your data is in clouds, not in the app