AOL is "sunsetting" (read: shutting down or selling off) a few underperforming units, including online storage service Xdrive. But while Xdrive may not have been a profitable business for AOL, it's still a business, and all those users uploading backups to the cloud are worth something to someone. Enter Xdrive rival Box.net, which last week debuted a Xdrive to Box.net interface for AOL's abandoned customers to switch services. That's a smart move on Box's part, and we expect to see more small, opportunistic companies looking to profit from the AOL shakeup in the weeks ahead.
So why does Box think it can profit where AOL lost money? Here's one reason: the old Xdrive offered users 5GB of free storage. Box charges about $8 a month for the same amount of space.
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having said that. i bet some will be pissed if they find out about SkyDrive 5gbs of storage for free after having paid for a Box.net or drop.io pro account.
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I thought that I'd start small (29MB) so I entered by Xdrive account info and then my Box.net Free 1GB info and I encountered a message that Box.net could not transfer the 29MBs into my Box.net account.
So I thought that I should check to see if I had enough room in that Free 1GB Box.net account and sure enough I did. More then enough.
So here's what I think is happening. Box.net built a tool that looks at the total amount of space that your account is and not how much assets is needed to be transfered. So Box.net thinks that I am trying to squeeze 5GBs into a 1GB Free Box.net account.
Not so, as I mentioned it's only 29MBs total assets that I'm trying to transfer and I tried it more then once and encountered the same results.
No Joy...! So far the Painless Transfer is not so painless.
-Xdrive to Box.net NOT
Thanks for the comment - we are using XDrive's open API for this feature and will look into any issues that might be occurring.
Take good care,
Kendra
Community Manager
www.box.net
So I created a new Xdrive 5GB free account and uploaded a couple of photos to that account. The transfer worked fine from Xdrive to Box. I have worked extensively with the Xdrive API, and I think this is somewhere on Box's end that stops the transfer. Maybe Box.net will lift the individual file size cap for Xdrive users.
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