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I love Dropbox, but I use it mainly for photos.
Unfortunately it seems like the droobox app doesn't show thumbnails for my photos which makes it very hard to navigate.
Anyone know a seamless solution to this (not including going through the Dropbox webssite)?

The gallery will show them also only after you downloaded. Maybe you have to wait for an update from Dropbox? I think the reason is that as long as you have not downloaded them Dropbox wants to preserve memory/space on your phone and only shows basic info. If the devs realize the tablet market is increasing with devices offering more memory and computing power they might offer a more "Explorer-like" UI.

Dropbox on iOS has 2 features that I know of Android version doesn't, one is the thumbnails and the other is password lock. both were working on the ipad. Why the hell are they different I have no clue.

While I do use dropbox for a lot of things. I prefer using Picasa if I want to manipulate my pictures. being able to sync easily from my desktop and having access to the pics in the gallery on the xoom is pretty awesome. That is just my opinion. I paid $5 to have 20gb for a year from google. I hated to have to move the files to dropbox since picasa will detect new photos or changes and sync them without me thinking about it.
I like them both but I find dropbox better for files and with Quick Office HD integration it is awesome for that.
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I use picasa for my normal photos but for patient photos that I want to update on both my computer and xoom dropbox seems like a better option. Also allows me to organize those patient photos into folder albums...

16 gb enough space?

To those of you who have the 16 gb version and are dual booting webos and android, is the 16 gb of built in memory enough for you? Are you running out of space with apps, pics, music, etc? Might buy one so kinda curious. Then again I do have dropbox and the 50 gb box.net app so I'll probably be good anyways. Thanks in advance.
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Should be plenty for dual booting android. Not sure what kind of resources Linux uses

Google Music will be your best friend if you have a large chunk of music. I never was a fan of any of the cloud services only because of the upload limit size, however I did just find this workaround for box.net
http://www.webosbuzz.com/webos-info...ound-100mb-upload-limit-box-net-accounts.html
Still not sure how much I'll use it since I don't do anything with books/novels and my music is taken care of through google music, and I'm sure that work around mentioned above won't work unless it's multiple files, not one large one, such as a movie.

butikofer08 said:
Google Music will be your best friend if you have a large chunk of music. I never was a fan of any of the cloud services only because of the upload limit size, however I did just find this workaround for box.net
http://www.webosbuzz.com/webos-info...ound-100mb-upload-limit-box-net-accounts.html
Still not sure how much I'll use it since I don't do anything with books/novels and my music is taken care of through google music, and I'm sure that work around mentioned above won't work unless it's multiple files, not one large one, such as a movie.
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Deleted. SOrry

They will get rid of that work-around at some point.... just saying.
I have the 16gb Touchpad and most of the memory is filled of files from Gameloft and EA games and my titanium backup (don't like dropbox).
The rest is all on google music or Box

I've always felt 16 was plenty. I have all the apps I want in both webOS and ICS, and still have about 8GB free on the storage. I think I have about 1GB free on the system partition (that's where the apps install). But, I don't put on any music or videos. I have Netflix, Pandora, and Google Music, so I stream any content I want.
To me the device is basically a paperweight without a network connection. Like 90% of my use is either YouTube, Netflix, or web browsing. So I dont worry about space.
If you plan on loading it up with music I would think 16 us still plenty. Even though I have over 100 GB of music files, I only really listen to about 2GB consistently on my phone. If you plan on loading movies on it, 16 may be an issue.
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Although I'm subscribed to services such as google music and box.net, I store my media files locally as opposed to streaming, so 16gb didn't suffice for me. My thinking is that streaming media files via box.net or google music is a good option if you: 1) stream only over wifi or 2) have an unlimited data plan. Basically unless you're utilizing your phone for wireless tether (on a limited data plan) for the majority of your network consumption, you could conceivably survive with 16gb.

I own the 16GB version, and the space is sufficient for my needs, although in hindsight I would have preferred the 32GB version because I often find myself playing the game of "Do I keep these files, or those files?".

Best ways to manage storage?

Hey guys, got my N7 yesterday and I absolutely love it! I'm currently running Glazed JellyBean (but you don't care about that). I bought the 8gb version, knowing full and well what I would be getting into, so I synced all of my music and pictures with Google, and am looking into Google Drive for other storage options. What are some other ways that you guys have found that save you some storage? You never really know what you got till it's gone (a pun, I'm referring to a sd card lol)

If it comes to it you can squeeze a bit more by moving user apps to system. Think stock has about 200mb free in the system partition.
I've got a 32gb sd card on my phone I can access with wifi file explorer while tethered
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Although not ideal for most people I have Samba Filesharing installed on my Galaxy S3 (requires root) that turns my S3's 32GB SD card in to a Samba share, and I use ES File Explorer on my tablet to access it, so with large games (like Gameloft games) I move the assets folder over to my S3's memory card when I am not going to play them, and just keep the assets for the game I want to play on my tab. Takes a minute to transfer but faster by far than downloading the assets every time I play the game. Rarely do I find myself in a situation where I don't have my phone close by, especially since I tether to my phone when Wifi is not available.
I also have a share on my Windows PC. AndSMB will allow to access your shares over 3G\4G but obviously this is only useful for small files.
For music I use Amazons MP3 cloud service. You can store 250 songs for free, or 250,000 songs for $25 a year, and songs you buy from Amazon don't count toward your limit.
For pics, docs, and other things like that I use Google Drive.

I use Google Music to store all of my music on the cloud and Plex to serve up movies from my PC at home. Pictures are all stored on Google+.
I have pretty much everything I need on my 8gb and I still have around 4gb (of the 6gb available) free
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Got a terabyte drive connected to my router, although have not used ,y n7 with it yet (I have the 16gb)
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For storage, I'm using Google drive for all my ebooks and Google Music for all my music. As for movies, I leave everything on my PC. I bought Splash top HD to stream everything directly to my tablet. I haven't encountered any problems so far.

Yeah my pics are synced with Picasa and my music w/ Google Music, I just want to play some games and unfortunately, most of the graphic intensive ones require around a gig of data

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Yeah my pics are synced with Picasa and my music w/ Google Music, I just want to play some games and unfortunately, most of the graphic intensive ones require around a gig of data
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Force yourself to beat a game then uninstall. I have a hard time with that myself
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[Q] Phone Storage Usage

hi,
is there any chance to see the specific usage of the storage in the system.
I copied a folder onto my phone with 11gb but deleted it again and there where already broken links in pictures music and videos.
Now i have 2.39 GB of "other" storage and i dont know where this is coming from.
Apps is 611MB music 89 and videos 90.. system 1.91gb
is this 2.39 something apps and browser put there or should they count into apps. and where do my 2 nokia maps downloads count in?
in the explorer i only can see pictures and video that is right.
music is only my music pass files without downloads

Reported as dup of thread in Lumia 920 Q&A forum.

The word is this is flexible storage that Windows Phone uses. This is larger than it needs because your not using the space. it will compress if you need the space..

Could this be a awesome idea? What do you think?

Saw this redit
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Anyway since the SDK is released for Chromecast, hasn't google missed a trick?
Is this a good idea
Why doesn't google make Chromecast app be with google drive? I could upload all my files, movies, torrrents, photos and would love to have them ALL in one place and be able to cast them?
I would really consider upgrading the storage and paying for more storage, they would be able to get more $£€¥... IMO
So do you think google should do google drive Chromecast, if no why not?
Same thing with that ^ but again would like to see DRopbox have the ablitlty to stream. Things from the cloud.
Pros of this - limited space on phone storage, so drive can be used No need to run a server 24/7. Save electricity costs Assuming its cheaper considering that ^ Can view word files, homework, PDF , on big screen
Post your views would you like to see this?"""""
I live that idea, could be very useful. Your views ? Should google do this

Krisshp said:
Anyway since the SDK is released for Chromecast, hasn't google missed a trick?
Is this a good idea
Why doesn't google make Chromecast app be with google drive? I could upload all my files, movies, torrrents, photos and would love to have them ALL in one place and be able to cast them?
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I live that idea, could be very useful. Your views ? Should google do this
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Avia can pull from Dropbox
AllCast can pull from both Dropbox and Google Drive
RealPlayer Cloud can pull from their cloud
If Google was going to do this, they would have already - because they didn't need to wait for the SDK release - they could make any Chromecast app they wanted to whenever they wanted to.
They could just do a straight dump/retrieve from Drive to Chromecast, but without a player app that can handle that file type, Chromecast will just get the file and not know what to do with it, just like having your browser download a file that your computer/phone doesn't have an app to open.
The trick is in the player app, and Google for the most part leaves it to the app developers to develop.
The business aspect is that if Google starts developing lots of apps for Chromecast, developers may shy away from Chromecast development in fear that Google will do what their (paid) app is doing for free.

bhiga said:
Avia can pull from Dropbox
AllCast can pull from both Dropbox and Google Drive
RealPlayer Cloud can pull from their cloud
If Google was going to do this, they would have already - because they didn't need to wait for the SDK release - they could make any Chromecast app they wanted to whenever they wanted to.
They could just do a straight dump/retrieve from Drive to Chromecast, but without a player app that can handle that file type, Chromecast will just get the file and not know what to do with it, just like having your browser download a file that your computer/phone doesn't have an app to open.
The trick is in the player app, and Google for the most part leaves it to the app developers to develop.
The business aspect is that if Google starts developing lots of apps for Chromecast, developers may shy away from Chromecast development in fear that Google will do what their (paid) app is doing for free.
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Oh didn't know that. Yeah I get what you mean.
I'm guessing you must use avia, all cast or real player ,
Could I ask which one do you prefer the most ?
How much online storage in GB do real player offer?? Edit 2GB!!!!! Is that it????
Does it support the other 50gb cloud storage , mega???
Thanks

You can get an additional 3GB (I think) from Real by completing a few tasks (just like Dropbox).
But I don't put my media online, it's all local. Still working out how to handle it, to be honest.
There's definitely lots of room in the Chromecast space.
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I don't use Google Drive, so this may be idiotic - but can you paste the url directly into LocalCast and go from there?
https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/