Feature Request - cloud and local storage behavior

[Andy Toy]

Ok I see exactly what you are talking about, and that works extremely well.
The only note I have is that on the Mac desktop version, after I connected
it to the cloud storage it did not default to using the cloud file. That's
what caused all my confusion.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Andy Toy <andy at w5akt.com> wrote:

> 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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