New features coming soon

• Folder Watching
  
  Select arbitrary folders to add to ZumoDrive with just a right click.
  
  
• Predictive Caching
  
  We will predict which files you are most likely to use on a machine if you were to go offline, and selectively synchronize just those files for you.
  
  
• Support for more audio formats
  
  Support for more audio formats on the web and in iTunes including .ogg, .flac, and many more.
  
  
• Android Application
  
  Like the iPhone application, also coming soon.
  
  
• Ajax Web Interface
  
  This will greatly simplify and speed up the web interface. Yes, this will include an upload from the web option :)

Love your service. Couldnt have been a better example of the KISS principle. What is “Folder watching” ? Is it where I can say watch c:\photos and if new files/directories are added under c:/photos they will be zumodriven…Please claify

Sanjay, Folder Watching is exactly as you described. You can simply pick a folder on your machine and it will automatically be watched for changes. Any files/folders in the watched folder will be added to ZumoDrive and will be accessible from any other machine. Let me know if there is anything I can do to clarify further.

So does ZumoDrive use any syncing functions? For example, if I upload a folder of documents and I am currently working on them, does Zumo automagically update them in the cloud? If not now, will this be a function of the Folder Watching service? That seems logical to me. I know ZumoDrive is not for syncing everything to all devices, but I would imagine it’s beneficial to have it keep the file in the cloud as the most up-to-date. Can you expand on this?

ZumoDrive does do automatic synchronization for you, yes. As you update your files everything will be pushed to the cloud, and the latest version will then be available if you access it on another device.


The Folder Watching service is meant to expand ZumoDrive so instead of forcing people to place everything directly onto the drive itself, they may choose to “watch” a folder and have it’s content’s synced to the cloud. When that happens, any other device will be able to access that watched folder from their drive.

Okay, I understand now. So for my desires, it’s not fully in place yet. I have to access the files from Zumo and edit them on the ‘Z: drive’ to have them synced back to the cloud, but when Folder Watching comes online, I can set my local folder (Say /User/Documents\) to be watched, edit them locally, and Zumo will sync said files to the cloud. I gotcha. Unless I’m wrong, then I don’t.

That’s exactly right. Our folder watching service should be in place shortly, so keep an eye out.

What about Symbian, Windows Mobile and other Mobile platforms?
Regards.

We are currently evaluating how we wish to move forward in the mobile market. Stay tuned and we should have updates on that in the near future.

Any timeline on the Folder Watching ability? I’m still trying ZumoDrive out (as well as the iPhone app) but man, you’d have me sold with Folder Watching. I can’t find anywhere else that does that. DropBox does, but I don’t want to be forced to have everything I want in the cloud also on my drive. I want some files in the cloud and those in the watched folder to be there as well.
Got me?

I can’t give any sort of official timeline for the Folder Watching, but be assured it’s at the top of our development list right now and we are actively working on it. It’s not a simple task, so it will require plenty of development and testing. I’d say to expect it within the next month or so, but don’t hold me to that :)

I’d really like to see a symbian version

Kevin
it sounds as if you really have a bunch of very interesting features and platforms in the pipeline.
Is there a kind of rough timeline of when we can expect what and which platform?
I’m very interested especially in extended features and in an Android version… ;-)
Jens

Looking forward to the folder watching feaure. I think this will really seperate Zumo from the crowd of other services

So this is how I THINK folder watching will work:
(1) Mark a folder to watch (i.e. C:\My Files)
(2) Any change to the watched folder will be copied to a corresponding folder on your ZumoDrive (i.e. Z:\My Files)
My questions are:
-How often will ZumoDrive be detecting changes? Continuously like DropBox?
-There won’t end up being 2 local copies of the files will there? For example one in C:\My Files, and one cached by ZumoDrive
-Can we “double-link”. For example two computers each have a C:\My Files folder, and they both are watched by ZumoDrive and mapped to the same Z:\My Files so the folders are in sync but also backed up in the cloud (Essentially Dropbox functionality!)
That last one is especially interesting because I currently pay for ZumoDrive and use free 2GB of DropBox to keep some other folders in sync (some application data that needs to be in a certain place on the drive and should be local for fast access). “Double-linking” would eliminate my need for DropBox :)

Is there an update with this? I’d really like to have folder watching.

Bump :)

Folder Watching Blues ==============
One good geek one time told me
That folder watching is coming
Do a one time synch
And forget the files u chose
But days have gone and
Things the same
No folder watching yet
Now I have the blues
Folder watching Blues
I can tell you…...
I have got
The Folder Watching Blues
I need that so bad baby
I need it till I die
That Folder Watching Blues
I got that folder watching blues

I dont mean to laugh at your blues because I have them as well. But that was funny

Yes hugely frustrating … I have held off changing suppliers based on this … but not sure how much longer before I get fed up of these false promises.

its been 8 months.. whats ‘soon’ for an android app?
its absence was the only reason i have limited use of the service.

Guys, sorry if there’s any misunderstanding there. We didn’t mean to mislead here. But as a small company, we have to focus on making our existing set of features working robust and solid for you guys before releasing new capabilities. All of the things listed are still on our roadmap. While I can’t give a firm date as to when it’ll be released, according to our current timeline, it’ll be within the next two months.

Hi Guys,
Thanks for being so patient. Kindly refer to http://www.zumodrive.com/forums/1/topics/838 to see how you can get your hands on a Linked Folder (Folder Watching) Alpha build.

android? ........

Yeah, Android would be cool..