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Yahoo Announces End of Briefcase

Posted 02/26/09 at 04:50:51 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Yahoo has announced that it is going to officially shut down its stodgy file hosting service Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. The service debuted about a decade ago. Ordinary users were offered 30MB of free online storage space, whereas premium users had the option of purchasing additional space to fit their needs.

The company has advised Briefcase users to download their files before the service shuts down. As for premium users, their accounts will be inactivated on March 30, 2009. Any unused amount of their subscription will be returned to them.

The service has been in limbo for a long time. Its anonymity can be gauged from the fact that it is among the handful of Yahoo services without a dedicated page on Wikipedia.

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Just move to Dropbox
Submitted by SysAnalyst on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 4:45am

On the recommendation of MPC, I've started using Dropbox. Though I never used the Yahoo service, Dropbox's free 2GB storage option sounds like a good alternative.

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I used it quite a lot for
Submitted by Jeffredo on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 1:30am

I used it quite a lot for backups - saved game files I didn't want to have only on the PC. Not as important in this era of thumbdrives, but those could be lost. If I had my favorite game backed up in Briefcase I slept better. lol

Oh well, have to come up with a plan b.

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Thanks for the heads-up, I
Submitted by Vegan on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 4:52pm

Thanks for the heads-up, I had some nostalgic high school era book reports of mine in there.

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