Feature Request - cloud and local storage behavior

[Andy Toy]

Oh awesome! Well done!

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:19:30PM -0500, Andy Toy wrote:
> > I just activated my cloud storage, downloaded the android app, and love
> how
> > I can get my dive log on my phone, but it seems that I can either
> save/load
> > a file locally to/from the cloud - not both simultaneously.
>
> Well, whenever you save to the cloud, you have a local cache which
> contains a full copy of the cloud files - that's transparent to you.
>
> > I would love to have a local copy of my dive log on my computer, if the
> > cloud version is newer it updates the local copy, if the local copy is
> > newer it updates the cloud copy and the same behavior with the phone.
> > Essentially, I'd much rather it treat the local copy as offline cache
> that
> > can be used if the internet is not available.
>
> That is EXACTLY what it does :-)
>
> > It also looks like I can't open the xml file on the mobile version, an
> easy
> > workaround for me would be to simply have my divelog sync to dropbox (or
> > any other similar service) and keep a local copy on the phone which is
> then
> > opened by the app.
>
> We decided against such an option because it adds more configuration, more
> dependencies, more complications, more things that can go wrong.
>
> Open the XML file on the desktop, save it to the cloud, voila, you have it
> both on the desktop and the cloud. Easy, transparent - and just ONE scheme
> that we need to debug and maintain.
>
> /D
>
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