Oops I spoke to soon, please see below... On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:27 PM chris hermansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sebastian and list, > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:19 PM Sebastian Gutwein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Although it is not recommended we use google drive and as of the latest >> release it works ok for most files including Geopackage. In past versions >> any time a layer on a geopackage was opened this would cause the file to be >> marked as changed and upload the whole file. In the current version (3.26) >> this only happens when edit mode is turned on. However saving after edits >> is much slower when it is in the Google drive. It appears that the .wal >> file decides to load the entire file into itself when in the google drive >> before writing the change to the file. Of course this doesn't prevent >> people from overwriting each other's changes if two people are concurrently >> editing on different machines. >> The file path doesn't seem to be a problem if the files are in the same >> location relative to the project file on different machines. >> I would be interested if at some point someone created a solution that >> allowed for diffs on geopackages using Lutra's >> https://github.com/MerginMaps/geodiff . I imagine if that worked there >> would be an cloud unsynced local version and a cloud synced local version >> that you could trigger a diff operation against. >> > > The problem with Google Drive is actually a problem with Google Drive for > Desktop, which is a "file streaming application" and not with the other > approach which is synchronization, similar to Dropbox. In the > synchronization approach your changed files on your computer are backed up > to the cloud Google Drive. > > Google Drive for Desktop is a plugin for Windows Navigator that makes > files in Google Drive appear as though they are on your computer in the G: > drive (or wherever else you might set it up). If you double-click on one > of those files, say foo.docx, then that file will open in Word. But if you > use QGIS to add a layer, the file names that appear in the "Open OGR > Vector Layer" window (for example) don't look like what you might expect. > > *Note I just tried this on Ubuntu 22.04 with QGIS 3.26.1 and WHOOPS it > looks to be working here, so maybe it's not an issue in Windows any longer > either.* > >> > I was wrong there. Things look good until I picked a .shp file to show; the file name that came up was a great long thing with lots of x's and y's and what not and QGIS would not open it. Anyway this is Ubuntu not Windows so YMMV. -- Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com C'est ma façon de parler.
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