Chapter 9. iDisk

Your iDisk is like an extra drive that provides 20 GB of storage (5 GB for Family Members in a MobileMe Family Pack), but this virtual drive is located on Apple's servers. You can use it to store anything you want, and you can access it from nearly any computer. By putting items in your iDisk's Public folder, you can also make them available to others (with optional password protection). Because you share that space between your MobileMe email account and your iDisk, the amount of space you've designated for email storage is subtracted from the total available for other files (see Divide Space Between Files and Email).

Although 20 GB is a fair amount of storage, you can quickly fill it with photos, videos, Web pages, backup files, ...

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