Hi,

  I'm a month into owning a PogoPlug. It's working out well for having access to key files when I'm out and about. But I still haven't figured out how to access photos and video reliably yet. 

  One question, photos and video are grouped by date. But not the date of when the video was taken but by when I loaded the files onto the PogoPlug. I'd rather group my videos and pictures by topic and manage a folder structure myself. Is there anyway to do that? Or maybe I'm missing the point of organizing files by date of upload. 

The device has potential. Some general comments and observations:
  For pictures, even when I'm on my home wifi with an iPad or Android phone, pulling up pictures is very slow and not really usable. PicasaWeb is much faster. For videos I haven't figured out the right combination yet. I re-code my videos to "iPod" and web obtimized H.264 using Handbrake (PC). Still Pogoplug wants to re-optimize the video again. I have no encoding processing. But when I click to play a video on my Android phone, Pogoplug offers to optimize the video again. I never waited for it to finish optimizing, but at the rate it was going, it would take over 90 minutes. I thought video streaming was supposed to be in near real time, not a process of submiting a request and waiting for delivery at some future time. Others have reported video streaming well, so I've yet to hit the magic combination. When I send a link to myself to "share" video, I see the thumbnails in a browser page, but they won't play. Just a black screen. ??

  Sharing files and folders looks like it would handy. But there is inconsistency in the link generated from the my.PogoPlug.com web page versus sending the link from the Android app. From the web page, there the option for the user to add a password and upload files. From the Android app, the invitation is for download only. Sometimes I see a file list of videos to download, other times I see thumbnails and a Play button. Very inconsistent.

  Uploading using the Pogoplug browser (a very poor choice of name) [I mean the .exe program you install] won't upload at all. But uploading via a web browser works (e.g., Chrome). 

Thanks.