Hi.
I don't believe google drive lets you synchronize a folder between two
different accounts, so you and coworker or friend(s) can modify files
and that be reflected for both places, one drive does, though it is a
tad difficult to work out how to make it happen. Once it does, if I
share a folder with you and you add it to your one drive desktop client,
I can drop a file in on my end and it'll show up on your hard drive to
copy and paste out or do with as you see fit, if you change it, it'll
also change on my end. Dropbox and One Drive (as of recently) can do
this, google drive as far as I am aware can't, please correct me if I'm
wrong about google drive here, I'd like to be, looking for other options
than Dropbox.
Don't forget about bt sync, for best screen reader friendliness with bt
sync you need bt sync 1.3.109 and disable auto updating. Bt sync doesn't
have a storage limit since it just copies files directly from computer
to computer that are in the folder in question, also with bt sync your
folders can be anywhere. For instance you can share your documents
folder if you want, though I'd say that might not be a very good idea
depending on how much sensitive content is in your documents. BTSync is
supposed to be pretty secure just like the others, but it doesn't store
your files on a server anywhere, they just transmit directly from
machine to machine. If you have a server that it synchronizes to, it's
because you put some machine you dedicate to that task in the folder. My
friends and I do that with dedicated servers, pretty slick.
If anybody needs 1.3.109 of bt sync, here's a public link from,
ironically, Dropbox
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1586962/BTSync%201.3.109.exe
just don't let it update, because later versions are rather unfriendly
to screen readers.
Been using bt sync for quite a while now, quite happy with it.
Back to one drive, the whole ability to put someone Else's shared folder
into your own one drive desktop client so that you can collaborate more
easily is new and only barely tested by myself, so I can't vouch too
strongly about how well it works. I had no issues with it what little I
have so far, though. One drive also is pretty screen reader friendly.
Note that the one that is built into windows 8.1 is not the same as the
one manually installed in windows 8.0 and 7, and the one that is built
into windows 10 is again different. They all get the job done and can be
used with jaws, though.
Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates
Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community
http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.2.0 portable
On 10/2/2015 11:17 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Greetings:
I was able to install googledrive last night. I've also heard folks
jumping all over onedrive. What is the difference between the two and
why get one over the other? Is one more accessible than the other?
I've never dealt with these before so excuse the dumb questions.
So far, at least google drive, it's just like dropbox, where it's a
copy and paste thing. OneDrive, I'm not sure because I can't ever get
it to work. Part of it is passwords hahaha. I have so many passwords I
forget which is for what.
So many passwords for everything, pretty soon, my kids will not answer
the door and just say "what's the password" after I knock. haha.
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