http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/tidbits-talk magazine primarily because using iDisk seemed a really easy way for
us to share files, especially now that two of our editors have
laptops and are doing the majority of their editing from home.
Unfortunately, we've found the performance of the iDisk ranges from
slow to painfully slow. Last night, for example, I was doing some
editing from home, and I would get the spinning beach ball of death
for three, four, five minutes at a time. And all I was trying to do
was scroll the file! (And these are small Word and Mariner Write
files, never larger than about 100 k.)

Everyone has a slightly different computer configuration, but the
computer I was using last night is a G4 iBook with lots of RAM (700
MB?) running 10.4. I never had such performance issues when not
connected to an iDisk.

Is there anything that can be done about this? If not, are there any
alternatives to iDisk?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
David Garrison
Publisher
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