Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I know there's been a bit of storage/back-up chat in the last few pages so bear with me.
Like @Muppetteer I need to pull and store a load of files. I currently use Dropbox and I have just enough space on there that I could upload to it, but then that doesn't leave me much room for regular working.

Have more than one machine? Got a NAS somewhere? Run Syncthing!

https://syncthing.net/

Syncthing is like Dropbox, but way more powerful... and you run it on all your machines (like the Dropbox client), and it's free, 100% free.

There is no cloud component, each machine connects to the other, etc. But if you have a NAS then put Syncthing on that, and it becomes your always available cloud available instance.

The sync is peer to peer... so when you're on the same network you sync at the speed of the local network.

You can also set up multiple sync directories with entirely different criteria and choose which ones are available to which machines... and that is the killer feature. Have your larger machines sync everything, have smaller machines only sync their working set, hell... I have my mobile phone run Syncthing for it's Downloads directory which makes my mobile downloads instantly available on my laptop.

Basically... Syncthing kicks ass, but is absolutely incredible if you have an always on computer to run it on, like a NAS.