On 04/21/2015 11:35 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
I pretty much can only use one computer at a time.
That's one form of discipline about file access. Its not one I practice.
I believe the original poster wanted a way to move files from one computer to another.
As a consultant I've learnt that very often people ask for something that reflects their _present_ work-flow or view, but they want a change and perhaps the change is to the work-flow. In other words: what they ask for isn't what they actually want or need.
With Dropbox you place a file in the Dropbox folder on one computer and in a few minutes/seconds, depending on file size, it shows up in the Dropbox folder on the other computers.
We, my first reaction to that is "NOT!" But my second reaction is "yes but that makes some assumptions". The simplest of those assumptions is that they are both on-line at the same time. What if that doesn't hold? What if "B" is off-line and the copy on B has also been changed? What happens when B comes back on-line? Its all very well designing for the "correct" use-case, the benign, well disciplined use. But how do things stand up when the 'protocol' is NOT followed, when its abused for one reason or another? An example might be a file system that handles power loss, that guarantees its integrity even when the plug is puled in the middle of a transaction. Yes, we've come to take that for granted but it wasn't always so,
You can also send a file to a friend through Dropbox.
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