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That vpn analogy makes sense so I mean is it necessary for home/cell data use and have it running 24/7 or would I only need it when I’m say connecting to some other network
As for filen and proton, with proton I haven’t seen the ability to watch a directory so I’m assuming that’s a filen feature
But I’m assuming it works like: I’ll have a college folder for all my classes and I want it to watch this folder, inside college are 3 more folder and so if I edit “super_cool_essay.doc” on my local desktop it will then save that as a copy to filen then filen would add the edits to “super_cool_essay” on my laptop or at the very least be able to that process manually
It was kind of a word salad but my ideal solution would be to type away on my home desktop and pick up on my laptop at college or vise versa
Your call really. I have mine running at all times on all my devices. There's no data limit and no downside to having it on. Some sites block VPN's but if that happens, or if you want to access something through your normal ISP connection, some VPN's let you do what's called Split Tunneling, which means you can temporarily let an application skip the VPN.
Exactly that. When you download the Filen application on your devices you can set as many what Filen calls 'Syncs' as you like. You tell it to constantly watch a directory on your machine and any changes that are made to the contents of that directory (such as you making a change to your Word doc or pasting in a bunch of files) get encrypted then uploaded instantly to a directory in your account on the Filen web server. It's like having a clone of the directories you choose to watch.
Then, if you want to have access to those same files on your lappy, you create a watched directory on that machine via Filen, do a one time download/sync and from that point on changes you make to those files/directories on either machine will be synced to the other one via your Filen acct.
You can also upload things in non-watched directories so they're there without being constantly overwritten - for backup purposes mainly.
Thanks
well then filen might be exactly what I’m look (besides a privacy focused 1:1 clone of OneDrive ofc lol). It’s a little confusing reading it but I’m sure it’ll be super easy once I get working on it
But TSYM for the