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Windows Vista Users Please Note!

6/28/2007 3:57:45 PM

When starting the Virtual Disk Drive, if you get an "Unable to Connect" message, please right-click the program and choose the "Run As Windows XP User" option.

2007/02/18 - System Down from 21:00-23:59 PST for hardware upgrades

2/18/2007 5:06:02 PM

Globaldrive will be down on 2007/02/18 from 21:00 - 23:59 PST for hardware upgrades.

Service Interruptions May Occur on 2006/12/08

12/7/2006 3:59:37 PM

NOTICE TO ALL USERS:

We are upgrading our servers on 2006/12/08 between 11:00 and 14:00 Pacific (USA) Time. Please save and save often, and be aware that service interruptions may occur. While we are taking every precaution to not interrupt our service, we cannot guarantee that the site www.globaldrive.com nor that the Virtual Disk Drive will perform 100% of the time during this three-hour period.

This is the first such planned service interruption in nearly a year, and we are doing everything possible to ensure your satisfaction.

Thank you for your patience.

vty
GlobalDrive Support

GlobalDrive releases 5 new features!

10/29/2006 11:57:32 PM

GlobalDrive is proud to announce several new features available for free to all trial accounts and subscribers.

All features are available today!

GlobalDrive users have long been able to download any file using the Virtual Disk Drive or the web, but the web has always been hard to download a lot of files at once. You now have the ability to download entire folders via the GlobalDrive web. Any folder can be downloaded from the GlobalDrive web admin in the form of a .ZIP file.

On top of being able to share files, GlobalDrive now also offers the following 4 new features:
- Ability to share entire folders via the web
- Ability to view RSS feeds for any shared folder
- Ability to download a zip of any shared folder
- Ability to download a zip of any sub folder of a shared folder

New subaccounts functionality

8/4/2006 6:40:11 PM

You can now specify whether your subaccounts will be locked into a subdirectory, or at the root of your drive.

Scheduled maintenance

6/29/2006 5:46:52 PM

This notice is to inform you that there will be scheduled maintenance on 7/7/2006. Between the hours of 2:00 AM EDT to 2:30 AM EDT, you will experience a 2 minute interruption of service. This maintenance will not require action on your part to ensure proper completion of the initiative.

Virtual Directories - Free Upgrade

5/7/2006 5:21:57 PM

Global Drive is proud to announce the addition of a new feature called Virtual Directories. Virtual Directories allow you to access the same directory from the root of every one of your sub-accounts. Virtual Directories enable an easy way to share files between all of your sub-accounts, even if some sub-accounts are locked into a sub-directory of the main account directory. You will see this new feature on your left navigation bar when you are logged into your Global Drive account.

Changes to Terms Of Service: DMCA Notice; Choice of Law Rules

2/22/2006 12:49:44 PM

The Terms Of Service (TOS) have been changed as follows: (a) the TOS now uses the State of California, County of San Francisco, United States of America as its choice of law rules; and (b) the TOS now refers to a separate page, copyright.aspx, where we cite our adherence to the terms of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and provide a mechanism for DMCA complaints.

New website launch

2/20/2006 3:25:06 PM

GlobalDrive is proud to announce the launch of its completed redesigned web site and account functionality. Now you can easily navigate your account files and folders over the web like never before. Give it a try for yourself to see the latest in web interface usability.

RSS and ATOM feeds now available

2/19/2006 10:13:33 PM

GlobalDrive is proud to announce that they will now be offering RSS 2.0 and ATOM feeds for all GlobalDrive news. Using your favorite RSS/ATOM feed reader you can now keep up to date with the latest and greatest of GlobalDrive.

Virtual Disk Drive available!

10/25/2005 3:25:06 PM

GlobalDrive is GlobalDrive is proud to announce that the GlobalDrive Virtual Disk Drive is now out of beta and available for download.

Sub-Accounts now standard

8/8/2005 9:00:13 PM

GlobalDrive users now always have at least one sub-account per subscription. GlobalDrive does not charge more for the privilege of having sub-accounts, and our standard pricing is based on how much space and how many sub-accounts you wish to have.

Our minimum subscription size is now 1Gb, and comes with one sub-account in addition to the "Primary" (main) account. Sub-accounts are useful even if you don't share your data with others.

Let's say that you frequent an "internet cafe". It would be bad if someone else were to glean your account info (username and password) from that public computer and destroy your data. In this case, you can set your sub-account to a username and password you don't give out to others but with read-only access. Then use that sub-account to access your data from the internet café, and if someone discovers your username and password, they cannot destroy your data.

Or, for example, if you have a co-worker or research assistant helping you on a project, you can assign them read-write access to a subdirectory in your space but not your main account. That way, they can do anything with the quota of space you have allocated to them, and you can copy data from their subdirectory to your (protected) directory, while at the same time limiting their ability to affect your data.

It's a nice feature to have when it's free, and with GlobalDrive, sub-accounts are standard. Just another way we "set ourselves apart from the crowd".

For more information, click here.