This is all very interesting. I appreciate your input. Carol From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:52:54 -0600 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cloud Storage
See comments below: So, for #1: Dropbox allows two people to work on the file at the same time, but whoever closes their file first retains the master name, while for the person who closes second Dropbox creates a second file and adds the additional name of 'Anne's conflicted copy' to the main file name. If this ever occurs, you can use Legacy's compare files tool to see any differences between the two files. Google Drive doesn't allow two people to have the same file open. I'm not sure how Microsoft OneDrive works. Might just be terminology, but this is not technically true. Legacy is ALWAYS USING THE LOCAL COPY of your data files. If two people are updating Legacy on two computers simultaneously, they are both independently updating their own local copy of the file. Legacy never reads from nor writes to the cloud based copy of the files. Legacy doesn’t even know you are using Dropbox. Once Legacy writes some data to the local file, Windows and Dropbox somehow pick up that change and send it up to the ‘central cloud copy’ and then down to other linked computers. The central cloud copy’s purposes are to 1) be the central clearing house to send updates to the linked computers, and 2) act as an offsite file backup. Paul Gray -- 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]/
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