On 04/21/2015 11:38 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
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.
Well, today I'm using two computers to do different things. One is recording and editing video files for the TV station. The other is just for my whatever I'm doing at any point. It is kind of hard to use my laptop and desktop when the desktop is here and my laptop is in Wichita. Or if I go to a research library and only take my netbook and leave everything else at home. I have at times past used my laptop at the TV station in Wichita and at the same time used my netbook to watch our home Directv to watch something through the Slingbox. So, yes, there are times when I use more than one computer at the same time. But, that's not for editing the same file at the same time on different computers. That's is ignorance
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.
Sometimes you have to give someone what they need rather than what they think they want. That works for retail sales or most any kind of customer service.
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?
That's why you have to remove the file from Dropbox in a collaborative setting. That way there is only one file. No one else can use that file till the new changes are "uploaded". OR As in my use I have to remember to start the computer with the changed file when I reach a location that has a connection.
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. That is the only use I have Dropbox. FTP-by-mail of a non-trivial file is ... Well a one pioneer of the Internet put it, "Evil".
We all use our computers in different ways. I also use Teamviewer. If we are in Wichita and I leave my desktops here at home turned on I can access the computers to transfer files or control the computer. There are many ways to transfer files between computers. For some I can just use Dolphin and Samba to access a windows computer on our network. Sometimes Dropbox is a better choice. If we are out and about then Teamviewer allows me to access my home computers. I also know there are other process's that could be used. Puty/ssh/whatever, but I find my combination to be the best for me and my use. Not being "techie" these programs allow me simple, easy, use. YMMV. -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org