Interesting... I have quite a bit of storage with both the Sonar granted space (no longer the permanent it was advertised to be) as well as more that I won online...

Funny, but I've never used any of it. Too many reasons with the current issue being a prime one. I have a hard time trusting someone, somewhere else with my work... I do my own backups and even leave copies at other peoples' homes for extra safety... A bit of work keeping everything updated, but I feel fairly secure... Satellite internet with slow speeds and download limitations kept me from even considering it for collaborations and the system they designed seemed far to invasive to enable... Not that anyone is collaborating with me anyway! ;-)

As to they're new reply? Better, but still too insidious... Methods of forcing people to spend/buy more. Am I mistaken about the Sonar supplied space? Was that not "permanent"? Well... We know nothing is ever permanent, eh? ;-)

I've been using Dropbox since it published and it works fine and they seem a bit more grounded...? Easy enough for me to upload a project to a private Dropbox folder and update it if/when necessary. If I pay attention, I only have to upload any changed wav files and the Sonar project file... A bit painful, but doable... It would be nice to have a system that does as I'm told gobbler does, but I have now lost what little trust I might have had for them...

As was said here regarding Cakewalk's integrity with it's 3rd party collaborations, I too felt they must be pretty solid to be associated... But even the best of intentions can be ruined by happenings in the real world...

I for one believe that they should leave their' 1.0 system intact for those who are using and satisfied with it and add the 2.0 system as what they will now sell... Much like a store selling it's old stock as the manufacturer doesn't make it anymore... It might be all that client needs/wants and already bought!

...and then the upgrade path should have a method of migrating to the new system! We're not talking about a few picture files of web density here. These are large collections of large files!

I feel badly for those using and depending on it already. I guess I'm lucky I had pitiful internet so that I never even tried...

I can't help but think about this as an insurance company... The tone of their thoughts makes me feel like I'm being hustled!

I hope everyone manages this upset without too much agony or frustration...

Keni

Network solutions will give you 300GB storage and unlimited bandwidth for $120 a year and they have been 24/7/365 for the past two decades.
 
But, there is a catch. You have to know how to use a ftp application. :-S
 
Oh my.

mike_mccue
Network solutions will give you 300GB storage and unlimited bandwidth for $120 a year and they have been 24/7/365 for the past two decades.
 
But, there is a catch. You have to know how to use a ftp application. :-S
 
Oh my.

I'm fine with FTP and occasionally use it, but the tiem it takes me to teach a client to use it, i could have walked cross country and delivered files by hand.

I've been following and talking to Gobbler for almost a year now because I've had high hopes for an update that made collaborating on projects with one or more people easier. In their 2.0 remodel of the system, they have pretty much failed in every way possible so at this point in time, I'm completely writing them off.
 
One of the biggest annoyances I had with Gobbler was not having quick access to a friends list so I could instantly share with certain people a project I was working on and we wouldn't have to have 15 different files and 15 different versions of the same song. While you can add people to a single project in 2.0 it seems, it's still lagging behind in remembering who people were so you didn't have to constantly add them to projects via their email. This is a basic issue that should have been taken care of long ago.
 
The other major issue I had with them was price vs product. The amount of space you get for the price is laughable when compared to modern cloud storage. I get 1TB of storage with my Microsoft Office 365 account right now which is like $10/mo because I use multiple computers, otherwise it would be like $7/mo. Google Drive gives you like 15GB free... the list goes on. Gobbler wanted some outrageous fee for a tiny amount of space and it was very laughable. The only thing that set them apart was that they were built in to some DAWs now. Now they have said the model is going to change but I'm not putting stock in that.
 
We'll see how things pan out but what I've gathered from them thus far, I'm not impressed with the way they are doing things.

soens

Anderton
Completely OT, .... 

Aren't I usually?!

Actually I was referring to my comment...most folks here don't comment on the quality of other peoples' writing

When you decide to put your music on a cloud, you should get insurance.
You never know when it will rain.
Just sayin!

Gobbler is scaring me.  I think I'll stick to my portable hard drives for now.  

What a shambles. Glad that Gobbler are making some attempt to come back from it and do the right thing, but it inspires absolutely no long-term confidence in them. I certainly won't touch them with a barge pole now, unless they manage to become a years-on-end-solid proposition. I suspect this will ruin their reputation, possibly fatally.

I mean, without wanting to stick the boot in, to me, they've just demonstrated that they fundamentally don't understand the point of back-up.

I still get the feeling from some of the anti-cloud comments I've read on this thread and others that a common presumption is that people are using clouds as their sole form of backup. While I'm sure there are a few people who are this misguided, I think the majority are using cloud as one of multiple backups. I have all my stuff on an external and occasionally I will burn to a DVD as well. The cloud is a safety net in case something happens to ALL of your home backups (and that isn't as unlikely as some would like to believe - think fire or flood). 
 
Plus as much as services like OneDrive and Dropbox are great, they don't offer a revision history. This was the one feature that kept me hooked on Gobbler. Sometimes you lose your way with a project and think "damn, that Rhodes part was perfect until I started screwing with it." So easy to fire up Gobbler and download a version from a few days ago, extract what you need, and import it into your current version. There was also a "rollback" button to swap your current version with an older version, but I never used that. 
 
I'd still be over the moon with Gobbler if it wasn't for today's shenanigans. But given that they're still giving us no idea as to when a Windows version of 2.0 will be available, I'll be shopping around for an alternative. If someone can point me toward one which has the same functionality and convenience of Gobbler for a similar or cheaper price then I'll be very grateful.