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Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 13, 2014 at 12:03 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
Writebox is now also available as a standalone Chrome app (as opposed to
>just being a Chrome browser extension):
>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/writebox/bbehjmjchoiaglkeboicbgkpfafcmhij
Woops, that was the link to the extension. Here is the app:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/writebox-for-chrome/gjiojfkjllkkkkcicbaiahobdgjfhkom
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 3, 2014 at 07:39 AM
On the topic of Chromebooks, I’m finding that the Google Drive cloud is not terribly reliable. I would save a plain text file directly to Google Drive via the Caret app or drop a couple of small image files on the local Drive that is supposed to sync with the Cloud, only to find that it takes sometimes 24 hrs for the files to appear on the Drive when accessed from another machine. So I’ll be sticking with Dropbox for mission-critical files for the foreseeable future…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 3, 2014 at 07:52 AM
One of the good things about the Chromebook idea (I don’t have one, so I’m musing here, really) is that in principle, you can use any Cloud provider. OneDrive is now a very enticing option, because of the enormous amounts of storage space available to those with even a modest subscription (one terabyte) and the growing quality of Microsoft’s web apps. Dropbox has improved recently (not least by adding full-text search). Our own business solution, Soonr, also offers full-text search, password-protected downloads and so on. I use a variety of Cloud-related apps on my iPad, and am increasingly impressed by just how much work you can now do online without resorting to Google at all.
As for Google - I fear they’re going the way of Amazon: total world domination, despite the ‘do no evil’ thing. If they were more predictable/reliable (i.e. actually had something like a roadmap), I would, perhaps, trust them more. But after the arbitrary destruction of a number of my favourite services, I no longer use Google Drive at all.
Posted by Ken
Sep 5, 2014 at 04:16 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
On the topic of Chromebooks, I’m finding that the Google Drive cloud is
>not terribly reliable. I would save a plain text file directly to Google
>Drive via the Caret app or drop a couple of small image files on the
>local Drive that is supposed to sync with the Cloud, only to find that
>it takes sometimes 24 hrs for the files to appear on the Drive when
>accessed from another machine. So I’ll be sticking with Dropbox for
>mission-critical files for the foreseeable future…
Thanks for sharing this. I do not rely on Google Drive, despite their offering 100GB with my Chromebook. I mostly use cloud services for sharing files, and for storing PDF files for reading later. I suspect that if my work flow changed radically, I would have to reconsider, but I am happy not to have to rely on cloud storage for my daily work.
—Ken
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 9, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
On the topic of Chromebooks, I’m finding that the Google Drive cloud is
>not terribly reliable.
Looks like the problem was not with Google Drive itself, but with the syncing between the local copy of Google Drive (in my file manager) on my Chromebook and the cloud version of Google Drive. While stuff did save to the cloud (when looking at it directly from a browser), the local copy does not get updated properly, thus becoming outdated for several hours, making one mistakenly think that the cloud wasn’t updated.