Hi Stephen, Dropbox - My Work Strategy - My work wherever I am:
I use iWork’09 (Not iWork’13) - Pages, Numbers & Keynote. My tutorials are produced in Pages’09. I work on Two Computers - a 17” MacBook Pro (which is my main “Home Base” Mac) and a MacBook Air (which is my “Out & About, & Work” Mac). I can be working on a Pages or Numbers project on either computer, so need the projects kept in Sync. I have a Folder in Dropbox named - “Work In Progress” which holds the documents I’m working on. So all my work files are the same no matter where I’m working from. Which means I can start working on a document on my MacBook Pro (at Home Base) and continue working on it on my MacBook Air (wherever I am). I can review a document or spreadsheet at any time on either computer, or share the document to a colleague. And if I finish a project and export is as a PDF I can read it on my iOS devices. Dropbox syncs to my iOS devices as well as my computers. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > On 14 Dec 2014, at 10:26 am, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > WOW Ronni ! > Well I feel that my requirements are very much like yours. > Particularly in that I don’t use P, N or K. > So thank you for your input …. I will retain Dropbox as my PDF and MS Office > offsite backup. > That is my main purpose for it after all. > > >> On 14 Dec 2014, at 7:41 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen, >> >> iCloud Drive is not a Dropbox replacement. I have not moved from Dropbox to >> iCloud Drive. >> And I really can't see myself using iCloud Drive in the near future - as I >> don't use the iOS versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote. >> >> A couple of quick points: >> 1. It should be noted that iCloud Drive requires iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, so >> legacy devices running Mavericks or iOS 7 will not be able to keep their >> documents up to date with other devices. >> In addition, once a user has upgraded to iCloud Drive, they cannot downgrade >> back to Documents in the Cloud. >> >> <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385 >> <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385>> >> <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264 >> <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264>> >> >> 2. iCloud Drive Is Not a Dropbox Replacement >> >> "The two services work differently. Take sharing, for instance. iCloud is >> generally all about sharing, but it’s mostly about sharing your stuff with >> your devices: that is, sharing the same stuff (calendars, music, mail, your >> budget in Numbers, and your half-finished novel in Pages) among all of your >> devices. Sharing stuff with other people, even other iCloud users, is not >> easy, and worse, the options are limited and tightly focused (such as >> specific photo streams or explicitly shared documents in Pages or Numbers)." >> >> Dropbox, on the other hand, lets you share folders and all the documents >> therein with other Dropbox users - for collaboration with others working on >> the same project, writing, editing etc. Doing the same thing with iCloud >> Drive would be impossible. >> >> iCloud, unlike Dropbox, doesn’t store previous versions of a file (though >> some individual apps do), nor does it let you restore deleted files. >> >> "Most importantly, though, iCloud Drive is not just a file sharing service. >> Remember that apps on both Mac and iOS have a lot to say about what you can >> do with their app libraries. This means that the Finder, in order to create >> the illusion that iCloud Drive is just another drive with a bunch of folders >> and yet respect those individual apps’ rights and requirements concerning >> their own stuff, can behave unpredictably. You can’t tell by sight, for >> example, which app libraries will accept which files until you try them." >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 13 Dec 2014, at 9:56 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Just interested if anyone has moved from Dropbox to iCloud Drive ? >>> And if so what you feel are the pros and cons ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Stephen Chape >>> >>> Mac by choice >>> Windows because my employer knew no better
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