FolderShare
Recently I was after a simple way of sharing files between people that allowed many PHP and HTML files to be sent at once. Sending files one at a time via instant messaging clients is tedious and having to ZIP the files adds extra steps, what I wanted was to be able to drop a group of files into a folder and have them distributed to all participants.
I looked at various collaboration software but these generally had significantly more functionality than was needed, in the end I stumbled upon FolderShare from Microsoft.
It is extremely simple to setup and use, simply create a folder on your hard disk to share, map a FolderShare library to it and invite others to share the library. Once configured copying a file to the shared folder causes that file to be copied to all other participants of the shared folder.
Microsoft don’t often impress me but in this case they seem to have produced a lightweight solution that does exactly what it says it should and does it well
FolderShare doesn’t have any of the bells and whistles associated with collaboration suites, for example it won’t notify you of updates or provide a history of who edited which files, so while it may not be suitable for all applications it is worth a look if you need a simple way of sharing files between people.
