We had earlier reported that AOL had grown concerned over the weight its services added to it and had decided to lose some with plans of shutting down services. Well the decision to officially announce the closure has made its way out to the public, after months of wait.
According to reports, AOL would begin informing its consumers about pulling the shutters down on three of their services. The voice is set to be ringing within a week and the services waving goodbye include, AOL Pictures, BlueString and XDrive.
Users still have time to get their valuable data from Pictures and XDrive. Pictures is set to go off by December and users can transfer their images to American Greetings PhotoWorks, or to their hard drive. AOL also offers users to buy out a DVD of their archived images. While those having their data at XDrive and BlueString will switch off by the end of December.
I think AOL has taken it to be their task of keeping consumers on the edge. Taking so long to announce the obvious is pretty irresponsible; of course they are giving time to them to save their data. Registered users will start seeing email notifications soon and will have to retrieve data that after the shut down will be permanently deleted. So if you are an XDrive/BlueString/Pictures user read less and save your precious images and files!
For those of you looking out for alternate online storage services: You can try Box.net and Drop.io, Box.net also has an iPhone App to make accessing your data easy.
The Xdrive service will be shutting down on January 12 2009. What will the last three days of Xdrive cost you? Get your music, your pictures, your documents. I would not recommend waiting until the last day. Get it done today…!
I recommend choosing ElephantDrive and to make transferring those digital assets over as easy as possible just click the link http://www.elephantdrive.com/m/ct.aspx?ici=267 …this is the Xdrive to ElephantDrive migration page.
ElephantDrive is the only solution provider working in cooperation with Xdrive using their Open Xdrive API. While competitors of ElephantDrive may offer discounts on their subscription plans you’ll have to do all the work of transferring your digital assets. ElephantDrive is committed to helping every Xdrive account holder make transitioning their digital assets seamless and transparent by using the Xdrive to ElephantDrive migration page.
ElephantDrive offers packages that are designed to protect the digital assets of individuals, SMBs, and large organizations.
Xdrive consumers with questions about transferring their digital assets over to ElephantDrive can check our Common Questions page.
https://www.elephantdrive.com/online_backup/xdrive_elephantdrive_migration.aspx#Learn
Matt K. Olson aka XDMOlson
Consultant @ ElephantDrive
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