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Indeed, it will be interesting to see how this works, since on with Google Docs the documents are not actually stored on Google Drive (just a placeholder/link t
by danieldk 9y ago
Indeed, it will be interesting to see how this works, since on with Google Docs the documents are not actually stored on Google Drive (just a placeholder/link that opens Google Docs when you open it). I would expect that this works there same, because so far there are no Google Docs file formats.
It should also be noted that Dropbox already had Office Online support for a while, which allows one to edit Office files that are stored in Dropbox in Office Online. This integration stores the actual Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents on Dropbox, so after syncing you have these files locally as well.
- sseth 9y agoGoogle apps (now GSuite) has had offline functionality for several years. You can work on Sheets, Docs etc completely offline.
- danieldk 9y agoSure, but that’s not the same as: the documents end up as regular files in a directory in a standard(ized) format, that you still can open in 10 years long after you cancel your subscription/account. One of the huge benefits of Dropbox was that everything ends up as a normal file on your hard disk, that you can archive/backup. Unfortunately, that is not really true anymore, since Dropbox Paper docs are not saved to Dropbox. You can save a copy of a Google Docs document on your drive in a Microsoft Office format, but that goes in one direction.