On 20 May 2016 at 14:10, Carol Boswell wrote: > Sounds good, but how do you make it automatically sync? > I use a flash drive when going to the Family History Library and download to > my PC. If everything is onGoogleDrive, can I work with it from there and have > it automatically back up to my PC and/or flash drive? This is new to me. > Thanks, Carol
I have used Dropbox for some years now. When I am working on the files I turn off syncing, because it syncs with every change you make, and that slows the machine and costs more in bandwidth. As soon as I close the file, I turn syncing on again. Last year we went on a long tip, and worked in many places where there was no Internet access, but as soon as we got access, my files were synced to Dropbox, and to my desktop computer back home when my son turned it on to read his e-mail. That could be useful if I dropped my laptop in the river or something. It means that there were three copies of any file -- one on my desktop, one on my laptop and one on the server. In some cases four copies, because my wife's computer also synced tom some of them. Unfortunately Dropbox will stop working in August, so I'll have to revert to flash drives and batch files to transfer my working files from my desktop to my laptop and vice versa, and will lose my off-site backup as well. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [email protected] Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
