Many of us who work from home and work but don’t have a VPN have to deal with moving files back and forth. For me the only thing I could do was transport files back and forth with a USB drive. So I did some searching and found the web app FolderShare.

First off, I don’t have to pay anything. That’s an important feature. After a short setup from both work and home I can go to my secure page at FolderShare.com and access my files. There is a mirror function but I don’t use it. I just do everything manually so I’m not sure how well that feature works. I’ve moved some 2+ meg files through here as well with no problems. The only problem I can think of is that sometimes my requested file won’t download. But if I click it a few times it eventually works.

FolderShare started out as a private company and was bought by Microsoft. MS plans to wrap it into Live.com services. One thing that I noticed however, and this is sort of comical, is that the files are PHPs. I’m sure that’s a legacy thing held over from the company who started this project. And I’m sure that MS is working hard to convert all this to .Net code before it’s out of beta. Then again, maybe not.

Here’s another review of FolderShare from PCmag.com.