> -----Original Message-----
> But that's only super convenient if you happen
> to have an Android phone or tablet. And I suppose only if moving files
> to a phone instead of your real computer is good enough, maybe via
> google drive.
Just wanted to add a thought here... I think I have posted about this before
but it was probably more than a year ago. I came up with what I felt was a
slick solution for this which syncs the files in mComm on Android with
everything else.
I had already put my TPDD folder in Dropbox because I was using mComm on
multiple computers at home and at work and wanted to keep the files in sync.
When I installed mComm on my Android device I used an app called Dropsync to
perform the bidirectional sync between the TPDD folder in the Android
filesystem and the TPDD folder in Dropbox. (This is because the Dropbox client
app for Android doesn't actually sync files with the device, it only allows you
to download local copies; also you can't configure it to put files in an
arbitrary folder in the Android filesystem.) Once Dropsync is configured to
perform bidirectional sync, it will do so on a configurable interval and also
on demand whenever it detects changes in the local folder (ie. when you upload
something from your Model T into mComm, Dropsync will see it and upload it to
your Dropbox, and it will be on your other computers in a matter of seconds).
I still do something almost exactly like this, except I moved it all into a
Nextcloud instance which I self-host. The Nextcloud app for Android also does
not sync locally (much like the Dropbox app) so I use an app called Synchronize
Ultimate to do the same thing Dropsync did with Dropbox. I had been thinking
about moving away from Dropbox for some time because of data privacy and
residency concerns (having to be cautious about not putting sensitive files in
my Dropbox because it's stored in the U.S.), but then when they changed the
free account to only allow installation on a small number of devices (which I
had already exceeded) I was finally motivated to pull the plug and set up my
own cloud storage. No reason you couldn't still do it on Dropbox as long as
the number of devices you want to keep synced is small (or if you pay them).
jim
