I feel certain that this is a problem that has been solved by now...
I've been using Microsoft's OneDrive, formerly Skydrive, mostly happily as my computer's primary documents directory. It works great in theory, and usually in practice. It's basically a local documents folder that also syncs with a cloud backup when it can, which is exactly what I want. Something that I can work with exactly like a local directory, that will also keep a duplicate copy of the whole directory, in the cloud, and that will do two-way updating in the background, based on date of modificaiton. I am not interested in anything that requires internet access to use my files, nor in anything that wants to control the app/access to them.
Lately I have been having chronic and recurring problems with onedrive. I will be working on a document in the onedrive directory at the office, click "save" repeatedly, take the laptop home with me, and then try to open the same file on the same laptop, and OneDrive has an error and says someone has changed the file. It asks whether I want to keep my version or the server version, and neither one seems to have the changes I made earlier today.
Because OneDrive is so maddenly opaque about what it's doing, I cannot seem to find anywhere to view the file history or time-stamps of whichever versions it's confused about. This has repeatedly caused me to lose significant amounts of important and time-critical work. I love the seamless ability to log in and work on stuff from any computer or device, but I hate the unreliable and flaky inability to keep track of which version it should be saving (the most recently-saved one, duh!)
Is there a good solution (preferably cheap or free) that "just works"?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I've been using Microsoft's OneDrive, formerly Skydrive, mostly happily as my computer's primary documents directory. It works great in theory, and usually in practice. It's basically a local documents folder that also syncs with a cloud backup when it can, which is exactly what I want. Something that I can work with exactly like a local directory, that will also keep a duplicate copy of the whole directory, in the cloud, and that will do two-way updating in the background, based on date of modificaiton. I am not interested in anything that requires internet access to use my files, nor in anything that wants to control the app/access to them.
Lately I have been having chronic and recurring problems with onedrive. I will be working on a document in the onedrive directory at the office, click "save" repeatedly, take the laptop home with me, and then try to open the same file on the same laptop, and OneDrive has an error and says someone has changed the file. It asks whether I want to keep my version or the server version, and neither one seems to have the changes I made earlier today.
Because OneDrive is so maddenly opaque about what it's doing, I cannot seem to find anywhere to view the file history or time-stamps of whichever versions it's confused about. This has repeatedly caused me to lose significant amounts of important and time-critical work. I love the seamless ability to log in and work on stuff from any computer or device, but I hate the unreliable and flaky inability to keep track of which version it should be saving (the most recently-saved one, duh!)
Is there a good solution (preferably cheap or free) that "just works"?
Thanks in advance for any help.