[TriLUG] Cloud computing

[Grawburg via TriLUG]

Box.com works fine for storing and viewing my LibreOffice documents. But the option to actually edit them requires Winblows. I can edit the document on my PC, upload it to Box, download it to my laptop when I'm at home and do some more work....then reverse the process; but I'd like to have a single file and never worry that I'm editing an old version.  I can, of course, do everything from a flash drive, but I'd rather not.




Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cloud computing

Brian,

I fall back on Dropbox. It presents a folder view to select from / save to. It is also cross platform so you can access files from non-Linux OSes - even Android.

Contents are not encrypted so you would have to deal with that as necessary, by saving as a password protected file,

https://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/07/password-protect-your-documents-when-using-libreoffice

FWIW, one can keep passwords in an encrypted file using Keepass to make them available across machines.

If a file is changed on one machine, be sure to wait for it to be synced to the cloud and synced to another PC when starting it.

Much more to my looking that Google Uber Alles / docs.
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On November 7, 2016 2:21:08 PM GMT+01:00, Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
I use Box.com to save important documents and to work between office and home (strictly personal stuff). Even though Box let's me see a preview of my LibreOffice document I can't edit it in-situ.  Do any of the other cloud-based applications allow editing a file using Linux OS?

Brian Grawburg
 


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