Mega is the fastest free web claud. The files stay there for as long as you stay active. That means you have to login once in a couple of months so your account doesnt get deleted from inactivity. Once in 3months. I am using Mega to backup my photos on my computer. I like the ease of the drag and drop feature to upload, and the fact that I can upload whole folders at a time.
There is not further explanation as to what this means or why it will not upload. This is very frustrating, as it is a large amount of files.
Please explain why this is happening and is there a way to get these files to upload? Instead of fixing problems your only making things worse, Adding a new interface every time one logs in does fix bugs or problems. I get little or no support from MEGA at all. Of course their right on you soon as you go over your 50 GB free account, but as for actual problems from a real paying customers, you truly suck! In fact, a mid 19th Century telegraphist is simply not able to transfer your files faster using Morse code than Mega, a cloud storage and file hosting service offered by Mega Limited, an Auckland-based company, as simply even loading the landing page containing the link to the downloadable file would require inhuman amount of work and hours of input and transmission of Morse code from the aforementioned telegraphist to transmit the data contained within the download page to you to achieve even remotely comparable results, thus revealing the lingering fact that just because you lack the technological know-how to operate a personal computer in an acceptable fashion does not mean that the internet service Mega Limited, an Auckland-based company provides would ultimately be lackluster or unusable by the average user.
But I tried a couple of hours later and I was able to upload my files faster than Dropbox or Google Drive. This is actually kind of pissing me off. I wanted to download one item, not put all of my items on the internet. Is there any way to remove them from the cloud and back to my comp? When trying to upload my files, it gets to a stage and says I should free up space on my phone otherwise my upload is disabled. I do not recommend this product.
Secretly autoinstalled on my computer without my knowledge — annoyed me endless pop ups and took an hour to uninstall. This is an attempt to blackmail by annoyance to get you to buy — then punish you with 1 hour delete time.
This is bullshit. Do not buy. I am very pleased with MEGA. I have been using the service for seven months with NO issues at all. The transfer speeds have been good in London, Nottingham and Liverpool. A lot of speed transfer issues are to do with your service provider and amount of net traffic they have to deal with. Perhaps I have been lucky.
Kind regards to all. During a few weeks mega is blocked by the Belgium gouvernement. They say it has something to do whit the licence. Can you help me and whole Belgium, using Scarlet as provider, whit this problem? Get real. Add to the fact that your PC is having to encrypt every file before uploading. I established a new free Mega account yesterday, and experienced nothing but troubles in trying to sync the cloud with only a MB of initial data!
Upload speeds were extremely slow taking seconds for 4KB gif files! I was a former user of DropBox, and switched to Copy. Initial setup and syncing for both were a breeze and automatic. Mega is slow and error-prone — I spent the last entire day attempting to have it un successfully sync only MB of files that Copy.
Having done lots of research on the topic of cloud storage, my conclusion is that if you want your files to be completely secure, there are currently few other options as safe as MEGA. I just moved a whole load of files from Dropbox over to MEGA, by dropping them in a folder synced to mega. Speed was excellent using University wifi in northern England.
Last night I checked every folder had the correct number of files. I noticed this morning that some folders I moved within the local mega sync folder had completely vanished, along with all their content, and 2 files had zero file size. I found Dropbox utterly reliable, always syncing within seconds. A few minutes later it might start chugging away. It would be great if one could Preview images and other documents besides seeing they have a file name or folder name. Otherwise the right and or wrong file would need to be downloaded to view and check it before working on or modifying it.
But at lease being able to Preview would get a big help! Excellent service, but now is too limited: 6 hours wait to download files. Dont waste your money! A few times it Will kinda stall on an upload but I think that was just poor interaction with the gui because it would show no progress and then all of a sudden be complete. Also never had a missing file either. I do have advice for anyone uploading huge files though.
My suggestion is that you zip your files, one huge file will upload and download quicker than like a thousand small separate ones. There are a few things you should take into consideration like firewalls and your internet settings before blaming mega.
I only say this because so many people my self included think the speeds are great. On top of that 50gb for free is a hell of a deal. They do have sync clients now, and they have a sync client also for linux while big Google never bothered creating a linux client for google drive….
Mega limits my transfer after 50 kB or so, stating I have reached my limit, and wants me to wait 7 h before a new attempt. It is ridiculous to offer 50 GB if you cannot sync even small files at a decent rate. I have been using mega for several months already to download some videos. Bandwidth quota exceeded Your download could not proceed because it would take you over the current free transfer allowance for your IP address. To enhance this limit, you can register an account.
This will not only give you ample extra bandwidth but also 50 GB of secure storage space in the cloud — for free.
I am already logged in and I have been researching about it online and its said that it will refill after 10 or minutes. My computer has been shut down for more than 6 hours and more than 24 hours since I tried using mega again but i still get this message.
I have to download so slow! What a poor service from MEGA!!! I have been using MEGA for three months with no problems. Average upload and good downlod speed for countries with good internet like Bulgaria.
However I backup my most important files to another location. I am about to quit using mega, I am currently looking at alternatives. Initially I fond the syncing brilliant, although it takes ages to complete the first sync, sometimes days if it is a large folder. One first sync is over new or updated files in the sync are upload almost instantly.
My big problems are when I lost a few discs which affected two syncs, for one of syncs I was able to recover the data from the disc except for a few files, the other I could not. I recreated folders on a new machine and configured folders to sync with the mega folders, I expected the mega syncs to restore missing files.
Both syncs reported that there were pending downloads, 10 in one case and in other but neither ever completed. With mega browser interface you can select a folder to download.
The folder file download did not seem to do anything, the download folder as zip file also had issues. Initially the folder I wanted to download was 4. I realised there was a sub folder that I no longer required a deleted this sub folder from the mega backup. The brought the size of backup down to 3.
It did take 2 hours to complete the download. Normally I would expect to download a 4gb file in under an hour. If you ever want to recover a really large sync folder, I would suspect you would find it almost impossible.
The 10 files in other sync I could identify and download individually. I have only used free version, I do not know if things are better if you pay but I am looking for something better. Realtime backup which I want so as I work on my files they are being updated. Yesterday I accidentally modified a very important file that I had just moved from one folder to another. This way I could recover this file perfectly. Large capacity drives, such as the WD Passport 3Tb drive, offer a good amount of secure if you use it properly and reliable back-up for around USD, and is not subject to the whims of on-line cloud storage companies or hackers, when used wisely.
If you are concerned about others either gaining access to your files or other information, putting that stuff in a publicly accessible place that is the target of a lot of hackers and others, such as NSA, etc.
Stay away! Nowhere does it say your 50 free gigs is a time limited trial. You start with a base of 15GB, and get a time-limited registration bonus of 35GB. Otherwise 50Gb of free storage is a definite plus. I suppose it could be the encoding time on my end.
OK… None of the other Cloud storage services that I have tested have come even close to the transfer speeds of Mega. I was able to transfer a 1GB file in about 30 minutes. Downloads are nothing short of incredibly fast using the Mega App on the PC. It topped my downstream speed at 35MB per second!!! Yes 35 megabytes of data every second!!! JPG but it still uploads them. Since Mega has a different goal.
After 3 months the account can only hold 15 GB. With MegaSync installed I can actually get a shareable link and view previous versions of a file through two options in the context menu. The only think missing oddly is two-step verification. I am guessing it will be added soon. There download speed has decreased dramatically it seems its going to die a slow death hopefully for good this time.
Its free options are what attracted me now it turned to dust. Avoid Mega. One of the slowest upload and download cloud storage companies around. Not Impressed — Highly disappointing — Not to be trusted.
We would love to see you back! However, we reserve the right to delete your data if your account remains inactive for an extended amount of time. Please note that all your data on MEGA is encrypted with your password, which only you control. If you want to retain access to the data in your MEGA account, you either need your password, an active session or your Recovery Key. If you need any assistance or have any suggestions, feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Love this service. The Linux app just works — no fuss, no fiddling, no pain. Finally, a cloud service that integrates across all the systems i used. As dropbox has pulled back from Linux lately, nice to see Mega raising the bar. Thanks Mega!! They will delete your files without warning even when they are completely harmless and legal , plus their Terms of Service are really vague. I have music files and i check it everyday. Nothing really happen. I just think someone like your friends or someone you know, knows your password and trying to mess with your account.
Or just maybe you forgot that you changed your setting or just deleted your photos or just forgot to back your photos up. Has anyone considered the ownership of mega. However, NZ does have an open register for companies. I wish I have red comments on this site before I instaled mega on my laptop and backuped my files. Only reason I did not use google drive is because I could not purchase it from my country and 17GB I have on this drive are almost full with my gmail data.
When I realised what happened I have deleted my mega account immediately and I am pretty sure I will not open new one again.
Hi there. Not sure if the site moderators are still monitoring this article. If true, what is the time-limit before they start deleting files? The free version gives you 50gb for a few weeks then you must pay otherwise files are deleted. You can only download 1 gb then you must wait 6 hours before trying again. It will pause between sessions. It does not support Firefox and insists on installing megasyc desktop if you use ff.
Basically it looks good until you want to download or share files then it costs. Great support on Windows, Mac and Linux along with great apps for iOS and Android to allow you to access your storage anywhere.
An extra bonus is all of the applications are open source, with the code on their GitHub page, if that is important to you. Please keep walking if you never complain about their transfer speed. I am a customer from Australia. I pick Mega because they are New Zealand company which I thought it could be very good. NZ for 1 year for their business account. I can honestly tell you their service is going down. Sorry this trick might work for some standard customers with small plan, but I do not buy it.
They asked me to open speedtest. A for speed test where I assume their server is. How could that be possible? The customer service could not comment on this. Instead they said my test result is just a screenshot that is not clear enough. What does that mean? I cannot say all account has the same speed limit because I did not test others.
If you are looking for a storage service provider with more than 10Mbtyes transfer speed. Mega is not your choice. Thank you for sharing. What do you recommend instead? I cannot recommend Mega enough, after six months of not logging in my account my data was deleted without any prior notification by email, without any reminder, when I opened the mega website again I found my folders were empty, the folders were still there but the contents were gone, this cost me about 15GB of data.
Any deletion of user data should be notified in advance and I was not given any time to transfer the data. I have downloaded all my data locally, encrypted it locally and uploaded it to onedrive and I will never use mega again.
Everyone has surely been told about those conditions by their announcements clearly. So, yes, It makes a lot of sense. Sync is 2-way only. As a consequence, I do not recommend this service. When you have a very tiny MEGA cloud, it might work fine? Sometimes for days. It just does not work. And because third party services such as Raidrive need feedback from the MEGASync to start and map the network drive, you can barely ever use your cloud.
Only the online mega. But even if the UI is by very far better than Dropbox and Google Drive, it remains not ultra useful when you need to sync 2 or GB per day.
I already used Mega for a long time, but I decided to see this review and honestly was one of the best reviews I had the pleasure of reading!. All very well explained and a lot of things I still did not know or had doubts. So the Customer Service is the top based on my experience. I think it is good to go for back-up, after 7 years, as my case the same: had it since mega.
I had new acc since very beginning mega. It;s fast indeed when uploading Android device, compare with my Free 50GB box. Only you, and to whom you share that file, know it. Nobody can touch it. They the MegaTeam will delete your files if they are told by reporting that it is illegal. But if not to show, as having said, they see nothing. Go for it, my dear. Ageism abounds. Why is it that people equate age to technically challenged. It is simply not the case.
I live a life of continual education and my age has been an advantage in learning more technologies. Old people matter! Because the Cloudwards. Each article that we fact check is analyzed for inaccuracies so that the published content is as accurate as possible. You can tell that an article is fact checked with the Facts checked by symbol, and you can also see which Cloudwards.
However, providers frequently change aspects of their services, so if you see an inaccuracy in a fact-checked article, please email us at feedback[at]cloudwards[dot]net. We strive to eventually have every article on the site fact checked. Thank you. Wave FreshBooks vs. Xero FreshBooks vs. QuickBooks Online Xero vs. Visit MEGA. The MEGA web interface, displayed in a web browser. For example, if you happen to lose your master encryption key and somehow forget your password, your uploaded files will become irrecoverable, because they can only be decrypted with the encryption key you just lost.
Similarly, if you share files with other users, you'll need to provide a decryption key -- not the master one of course, but a decryption key nonetheless -- so users are able to decrypt files on their devices. Another security feature available with Mega is the ability to cryptographically verify a contact list [9] , which heightens security when sharing.
To prevent impersonation or security edge-cases like a man-in-the-middle attack, you can mutually confirm the details of a contact using 10 sets of 4 characters through an independent secure channel e. Yet another security feature available with Mega is called MegaChat [10]. Although chat features are outside the scope of cloud storage and to participate in MegaChat users must have a Mega account, the interesting bit about MegaChat is that it's a user-controlled encrypted service to have secure voice or video calls and text chats.
This means the encryption keys for the service are controlled by users and not a provider, similarly to how you control Mega's encryption key to share files with other users. Mega's technical security features should give you more peace of mind than what privacy terms are declared in Mega's terms of service [11] or enforced in its operational jurisdiction, which is New Zealand -- after all, only you control the encryption key required to view files. Nevertheless, privacy is at heart of Mega's mission statement, to the extent Mega calls itself 'The Privacy Company' [12].
Mega offers access to its cloud through multiple channels. In this sense, Mega is near the top of cloud storage providers in the amount of applications it offers for different environments -- a particularly important feature for those relying on Linux and Blackberry devices, which are considered non-mainstream platforms and are not supported by most cloud storage providers.
Mega's native applications are called MEGASync and are specifically designed to automatically upload and synchronize files on any device folder to Mega's cloud storage. This means that as soon as you place a file on a folder managed by a MEGASync application, it's automatically uploaded to Mega's cloud and also becomes accessible on any other device connected to your Mega account.
Although file syncing has become a default feature for all cloud storage providers -- since it allows access to files on any device -- Mega's syncing process offers the flexibility to define any device folder for syncing, which puts it a nudge above the industry standard syncing process.
Mega files can be shared with anyone through a link and don't require the recipient to have a Mega account. You can separately share the encryption key and URL link with a target user -- which is the recommended practice -- or append the encryption key to a URL link for easier access. Once someone has access to a URL link and its encryption key, the file can be downloaded in its native format or as a ZIP file.
Mega shared links must be revoked manually, but if you have a Mega Pro account it's possible to set a shared link expiration date. Mega folders can only be shared with other Mega account users. If you want to share the contents of a Mega folder with a non-Mega user, you must first add his email address as part of your Mega contact list, so he receives an invitation to join Mega.
After the user joins Mega and becomes a confirmed user in your contact list, he will be able to access your shared folder. Mega shared folders can be assigned the following permissions [14] :. Although sharing Mega folders can be a hindrance because it requires both users to have a Mega account, having a contact list of Mega users has additional benefits, such as the ability to cryptographically verify contacts and also being able to contact them through MegaChat -- features that were described in the previous security and privacy section.
For example, if you modify a file in Mega it's completely overwritten [15] with no way to recover the previous version, a process that's in stark contrast with other cloud storage providers which offer all kinds of versioning schemes to recover older versions of the same file e. Backups on a daily basis, up to 10 versions of a file or inclusively lifetime versioning of the file.
The only safeguard to recover old files or files deleted by mistake in Mega is through a debris folder or rubbish bin [16] , which are just other names for the garbage bin used to place deleted files on most computers.
For photo files uploaded to Mega, don't expect anything beyond a basic preview photo feature and a rudimentary carousel navigation. And when it comes to video files, although video streaming is unlimited i.
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