From: Billie W. <bil...@sw...> - 2012-09-10 11:59:15
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On 09/10/2012 02:36 AM, Benny Malengier wrote: > > > 2012/9/10 Billie Walsh <bil...@sw... <mailto:bil...@sw...>> > > On 09/09/2012 09:30 PM, Martin Steer wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 06:44:12PM -0500, Billie Walsh wrote: > > > >> need. The issue is that it just doesn't work "for" me. I > "need/want" to > >> have one database that is shared over several machines [ Desktop, > >> laptop, netbooks, etc. ] I have my database in Dropbox and can make > >> changes on any machine and they are immediately on my other > machines. > >> This is very problematical to do with Gramps. To my thinking > this is the > >> biggest downfall of Gramps. > > Hi Billie, > > > > Just curious. If you're working this way with PAF, does that > mean that > > the database in Dropbox is a gedcom file? If it is, why is PAF + > gedcom > > file in Dropbox better than Gramps + xml (or gedcom) file in > Dropbox? > > > > M. > > The database file is a "*****.paf" file. The native file format of > PAF. > I have no idea how it's constructed. PAF also generates a backup > periodically, also kept in Dropbox. I do also keep a fresh .ged > file but > that's sort of a secondary backup. > > > If you work at home with paf on, and in the library with no internet > access, and you have changes in both places (so simultaneously), > dropbox will not be able to sync, and you loose information. Try it. > > Working with gramps from dropbox works, but is problematic for the > same reason. > > The only cloud computing that would work is a program that can handle > it's own merge collisions. That does not exist for genealogy. The only > thing that works is pure cloud, so with need of an internet > connection, which is what gramps-connect.org > <http://gramps-connect.org> develops. > > So, Gramps is in this respect not worse than other genealogy desktop > apps. If you work consecutively, it goes, if you work simultaneously, > it fails. > > Compare this to working with collegues on an excell sheet in Dropbox. > Big problems. The only thing that works good for this is a service > like google docs. This is precisely what gramps-connect is, but > requires always connected to work. > > Benny If there is no access I can just bring the laptop/netbook home, or go to a coffee shop maybe, and connect to the internet. Everything is synched up. If I use the netbook at the county courthouse someplace away from home when I get back to the hotel I connect and everything is synched. We also have a Sprint wireless card with a wireless router that we travel with. We can have several machines with internet going seventy miles an hour down the interstate. I could synch from anywhere I can hit a Sprint tower [ and with the amplifier and external antenna on the sprint card that's about twenty or thirty miles range ]. There's no possible way I can be at home and at the library at the same time so I can't have the database open in two places at the same time. If I'm home I wouldn't be making changes on two machines. No one else collaborates with me on the same database. If your even semi-intelligent synching up the computers through Dropbox is no problem at all. Every computer I use has the latest version of the database at all times. -- A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The United States of America’ for any amount, up to and including their life. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ |