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1. Rickos - Member

   I'm a one man band so using some sort of cloud to store documents is useful so that I can access them from anywhere. I'm on Google Apps at the moment, but Google Docs doesn't sync changes across your account when you open a document on your laptop after you've made changes at home. It doesn't even recognise Word 2010 and saves it as 2007. So, not quite what I was hoping for.

   So, in an ideal world I'd like a cloud that syncs my documents so that I can always see the latest version no matter where I open it. This would be for PC and Android. Don't mind a small subscription for the right app.

   Over to you lot!

   Posted 5 months ago #
2. IHN - Member

   Dropbox.

   Next?

   Posted 5 months ago #
3. retro83 - Member

   I thought the whole point of Google Docs was to use its web interface to edit the docs (wherever you are) rather than using Word. Is that not the case?

   Posted 5 months ago #
4. Rickos - Member

   retro - I think your right, but I'd prefer the old school way of doing it on my laptop when at work and then use the cloud when on other computers or even a tablet when Android 4 is a bit more widely used.

   IHN - does Dropbox sync everything OK? And can it cope with the latest versions of Office?

   Posted 5 months ago #
5. Rickos - Member

   Just looked at Dropbox. So, does the Dropbox effectively replace the My Documents folder?

   Posted 5 months ago #
6. mefty - Member

   Dropbox is excellent I use it for all my working docs (got the tip from here), I use 2 laptops and a desktop and it syncs all three providing you are connected to the internet. If you are not you can still work on the doc, it saves locally as well, and then it will sync when it is next connected. Only caught out once when I had worked on my laptop offline and have not connected it to the internet before I started working on the same document on the Desktop.

   I have a dropbox folder in my documents on my XP machines.

   Posted 5 months ago #
7. chakaping - Member

   I was going to suggest Rainwatch, but I think I've got the wrong end of the stick.

   Posted 5 months ago #
8. vorlich - Member

   Have been using Dropbox for 18 months without issue. More of less as a replacement for My Docs

   Remember to keep backups though...

   Posted 5 months ago #
9. richc - Member

   Remember to keep backups though...

   and encrypt your files! Especially if you want to keep the data private (dropbox has been known to accidentally expose files to the internet/other users for you).

   Posted 5 months ago #
10. vorlich - Member

    and encrypt your files! Especially if you want to keep the data private.

    Agreed, Truecrypt is free and well regarded.

    Posted 5 months ago #
11. nickjb - Member

    Another +1 for dropbox. It even saves previous versions so if you accidently over-write something it's still available on-line for download. Basically use it instead of mydocuments and everything in there is backed up on-line and between multiple computers. My partner and I use it to share files, too. We each have our own dropbox with a mutual shared folder in it.

    Posted 5 months ago #
12. jam bo - Member

    oi, rick.

    if your signing up to Dropbox, click this referral link and we both get a bit of extra space.

    Posted 5 months ago #
13. Rickos - Member

    Ah, bu&&er! Too late Jim, signed up out of curiosity already.

    Posted 5 months ago #
14. jam bo - Member

    doesnt matter, i'm only at 31% anyway.

    Posted 5 months ago #
15. IHN - Member

    Sorry, been away.

    Wot they all said

    Posted 5 months ago #

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