Rabbits and hats
Let's see what Google can come up with to revive interest in this service. It'd have to be something decent, otherwise why bother?
You might say that Google and Yahoo! are moving in completely different directions. As the world breathlessly awaits the arrival of Google's mystery GDrive, Yahoo! has quietly discontinued its ten-year-old YDrive due to extreme lack of interest. A visit to Yahoo!'s venerable online file storage service, Briefcase, reveals the …
…nobody had ever heard of it?
Seriously, it really hacks me off when companies do this: the only time you hear about a potentially good service is when they announce they've canned it through lack of interest, yet no attempt was made to market the service to anybody of any note.
I just popped over to Briefcase and was suprised I have a long forgotten account there:
"Storage Notice! Using 28.79 of 30 MB (95%) of your Photos/Briefcase quota. You are running out of space."
I used it just once to transfer some zips from PC to PC, now some fun to take a peek through some photos and files from 28-Feb-2003!
(If only it would let me download them, that is...)
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Breifcase was handy to use for large zips when HotMail etc had a cap on mailbox size. You could mail the link and password to the folder and let the recipient download at their leisure. Not used it for a while so I guess I'm one of the nails in the coffin, though I do remember it not being easy to find.