In the event the local sync folder is stored on a device which later becomes unavailable (secondary hard drive failure, etc.)

[6] Under the new model, the company offered temporary promotional pricing and encouraged subscribers to use subscription auto-renewal.

If emailed warnings are not received, SugarSync will delete a company's entire cloud-computing storage account.

[8] SugarSync was born out of a company named Sharpcast, which was incorporated in 2004 by Gibu Thomas (CEO) and Ben Strong (Chief technical officer).

[11] In his self-introductory blog he promised to focus the business on mobile, sharing and collaboration, and enhancing the sync and mirrored capabilities of the product.

[12] In December 2013, SugarSync announced that they would be discontinuing their free 5 GB plan and transitioning to a paid-only service by February 2014.