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This one, like others, offers the iPad user control of both Mac and Windows systems from afar, even while away from home, as long as you’ve an Internet connection. It is not terribly expensive (and they sometimes have sales) and it uses a client/server design. The server code is free and gets installed on each OS you wish to control. The client side shows all accessible systems where the server is running. The screen view can be native or more limited. The latest version is fast and the use of the mouse is no longer as tricky as in the past. For those who want to view video from PC’s to the iPad this one is excellent. All in all, a solid effort.

Had one of these for a few years and it eventually died, though the drive kept on going, which was the surprise. If you’re not really concerned with the power consumption of using these devices for what may turn out to be somewhat limited use, then it’s probably a good alternative to putting your “stuff” out in the ‘net. However, when you’re away there’s the issue of managing the environment, if anything goes wrong (router, PogoPlug reboot, disk issues, whatever). When it’s on a server that’s shared and managed by others, there may be a better chance of higher availability, or at least support.

p.s. I was able to “fix” Dropbox by booting into Safe Mode (no network), cleaning things up, and running the installation. Seems that there must be some resources that the installation cannot either obtain or get control over that exist in a fully running system.

I’ve Dropbox on a number of Windows 7 (64 bit) and Mac systems. On one, I had issues and attempted to uninstall and reinstall Dropbox due to some errors. In trying to uninstall and clean up everything (incl. the Dropbox folder in Roaming) and then reinstalling I get very odd errors about not being able to read the dropbox.exe file or having sufficient permissions on a folder (I’m running with full admin privileges and even launched the install as Administrator), and then when attempting to abort the installation, finding the installation process hanging.

Seems others have run into similar issues. Love to know if anyone’s figured out how to completely clean out a system or if this has to do with something in the current download.

It would really help if the problem could be fully laid out. Did it ever work well under Win7? If it did, what changed in the “environment”? Apart from OS what other differences exist today? If the issue is the time to load, have you used any tools to watch what resources are in play when the app is started or whatever you’re doing? You speak of opening a file, which i can only assume is remote. How are you finding it for the purpose of opening? Is this done via a search, or explicit means within the remote folder, or other means as there are many tests you can use to isolate the problem. Has any software changed as to configuration or even version? Others have pointed to the possibility of the network, especially TCP/IP timeout. That’s worth pursuing, especially if Windows resource or traces point in that direction. Gnarly stuff!