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With Dropbox, you are free to pick the editor. Not so with Drive. The 'Docs +' in fact adds a constraint.
by sidi 13y ago
With Dropbox, you are free to pick the editor. Not so with Drive. The 'Docs +' in fact adds a constraint.
- andybak 13y agoI'm not clear how to get a Google Drive workflow using Dropbox and an app. i.e: 1. A single canonical version of each document with a change history. 2. Simultaneous real-time editing by multiple users with conflict resolution. Dropbox has pretty limited locking and conflict resolution even if you don't factor in live editing.
- PeterisP 13y agoWell, you don't get simultaneous real-time editing by multiple users with conflict resolution - but that's not why I use Dropbox for. In the last year, I had two documents where I needed to do that, and I used Google docs for that; but it's a very rare edge case for me. Frankly, in many real cases, I'd trust Word's track-changes+email workflow better despite its horrible usability - as when editing an agreement or technical spec, you don't really want to share everything with the "other side", so you need keep the comments and not-really-decided edits hidden; and you also want to review all their recent changes explicitly every time. Most documents I work with need no conflict resolution as creator and viewer is strictly separated; but where proper collaboration is required, Google Drive won't cut it, I would want to have a proper version control system like git or similar. There won't be Google Drive support for native-level editing of, say, Photoshop files, folders of code, audio data, or any data files edited by in-house built tools; but you can have a decent workflow where Dropbox syncs these editables between all your computers, and also allows others to read their latest version from a shared folder.