

Once installed, you’re able to either sync the entire contents of your MEGA drive or just specific folders within it to your computer. Having 50GB to hand is very useful, but to make the most of it you’ll want a client that can make uploading and syncing data between your machines effortless. Be wary, however: there are no password-reset options, so if you forget it, any data not shared with others will be lost. Your password acts as the master encryption key, so if it's strong enough it should be impervious even to brute-force attacks. Second, MEGA promises really tight security: 2048-bit RSA encryption no less. First, there’s the offer of 50GB free storage space (capped to 10GB bandwidth a month), with paid-for plans offering 500GB/1TB monthly bandwidth from $11 a month or $120 a year. Screenshotsįor any help with Mega, see there Mega Sync Client help page.Does the world really need yet another cloud backup storage solution? The answer is yes when you look more closely at what MEGA, the brainchild of Kim Dotcom, has to offer. Mega sync will start automatically: In the unity panel you will see a MEGA icon which gives you multiple options to choose from. Meaning future updates, you will get via your Software Updater.įor the people that don't trust any type of PPA, but still want mega, I uploaded the binary: megasync-gui to virustotal. The deb file also adds a ppa in your sources list. After that start mega from the Dash, from there one it will start up at login. Open the terminal in the directory you downloaded the deb file, then Copy/Paste the following code: sudo dpkg -i megasync-xUbuntu_14.04_b.

MEGAĭownload the Mega Sync Client for Linux. The client computers (with the exception of RSA public keys). The client machines are responsible for generating, exchangingĪnd managing the encryption keys.

Uploading device before it is sent out to the Internet, and dataĭownloaded is decrypted only after it has arrived on the downloadingĭevice.
