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That would make 1TB of space $19.90, which isn’t the cheapest way to get that capacity, although you can increment it as your needs grow and you can cancel at any time. If by some quirk of fate you find that you’ve used up that amount you can have extra 100GB chunks of capacity for $1.99 per month (opens in new tab), and you can add as many of those as you like. The pricing plan (opens in new tab) is remarkably simple and starts with them giving you 20GB absolutely for free.
UPTHERE HOME FREE
Upthere has a free plan that gives you 20GB per month free or you can expand the service's storage capabilities to 100GB for $1.99 per month. The continued maintenance of that tool strongly hints that sometime soon Western Digital aims to pull the life-support from Upthere, and those using it will need the only useful app it has to extract all their data to a safe place. A place that isn’t anywhere a cloud storage solution would choose to be.Ĭurrently, the only tool they have for Windows and macOS is one called the Upthere Parachute, designed to pull everything off the system and bring it back to a computer. That nobody at this company could spend the five minutes to remove it is indicative of where Upthere is currently.
UPTHERE HOME UPGRADE
Those that do that will then be told to upgrade to latest version, not that there will ever be another one.
UPTHERE HOME INSTALL
What’s exceptionally poor is that for Windows 10 users the Upthere Home app is still available on the Microsoft Store, where you can download and install it. Surely, they needed to expand this functionality with a desktop virtual drive and sync tool? Why any company would spend millions of dollars to buy a company, and then set about undermining it in this fashion is beyond our comprehension. The words ‘commercial suicide’ seems to best sum up this course of action. Six months after the takeover they disabled them accessing the system forever more! WD Upthere's web interface (Image Credit: Upthere)Īs limited as they were Western Digital didn’t just stop developing these tools. From what we understand these provided much the same functionality as the web interface and not the typical desktop apps that other cloud services provide. Oddly, at one point this product had apps on both the Apple Mac and Windows PC, both called ‘Upthere Home’.
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UPTHERE HOME ANDROID
Only Android and iOS mobile devices have access apps, where you can interact directly with the cloud storage, and there is no third-party support for other apps to do this or an API available to build your own. If you’re wondering about desktop apps that might bind the storage to a drive letter or sync important folders to the cloud, then you are out of luck with Upthere. The gallery organisation of content also suggests that this product was never meant to manage very large numbers of files or loops, should you end up with thousands of images or music tracks on it. It allows you to upload contents and then associate it with a Loop, although its much harder work than the mobile apps, and has a very peculiar interface that doesn’t allow the selection of multiple files. You can achieve much the same thing from a computer through the Upthere web interface. A Loop is everyone can sync their phone captures to that space, allowing everyone to see everything, and also edit anything. Let’s imagine you go on a holiday with a group of friends and you want all the images and videos to be accessible to all. It does this through ‘Loops’ that can either be personal or for wider consumption. The approach of Upthere is an interesting one that primarily organised around the concept of sharing over any other imperative. We’ll talk about that scenario later, in the meanwhile what does Upthere do, and is it any good?