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Hi All,
The difference between Dropbox and One Drive is minimal I was told...But we now have to use it as opposed to the communal Hard Drive I (we) used to use. I have used Dropbox for shunting files around for years so no problem stick it in Public email a link job done. The odd thing is I find it difficult to get the share thing right, I either use the incorrect share or I forget to update the link. I'm pretty sure this comes from not having it set up correctly but if I mod a thing that is shared do I have re-share the modded version?..
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They can both, as far as I'm concerned, go die in a fire.
veni bibi saltavi
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Still got the MATLAB Blues, I had too much of Simulink and Neural Net Tool kit...
(Simulink is way of wasting time you can spend so long calculating values, smack'em into Simulink and realise you got some matrix alegbra wrong, 'oh, but it's close, I'll just fudge it a bit' truely evil!)
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I dunno - Dropbox works, and it's very useful. And it's not as "I'll take over your system and really elephant things up" as the MS equivalent.
Don't use it much, but it's handy for "centralized" file storage without having to set up a site or web service for it yourself.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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TBH we use dropbox for just that, but it can still go elephant itself!
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: And it's not as "I'll take over your system and really elephant things up" as the MS equivalent.
I agree. Dropbox stores what you put there. You never know what the elephant will wind up in Onedrive just because windows thinks it should control everything.
It doesn't even seem to be very easy to get rid of Onedrive (not that I actually care enough to try very hard, though).
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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And because it does that, some people end up accessing files from the cloud without knowing it, and this can cause problems (like images disappearing from documents because OneDrive didn't serve them in time.)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Johnny J. wrote: It doesn't even seem to be very easy to get rid of Onedrive
It can be done, minor difficulty (even "un-installed" some files remain locked inside deep holes) - luckily [the over 10 years-old] unlocker 1.9.2 seems to be able deal with those.
Even when fully removed it tries to come back, for instance sometimes when orifice upgrades (- without asking, because of course ms knows better than us what we want or need).
I believe it's self-installer was modelled upon whack-a-mole cross bred with fire ants
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Ever stored pictures on dropbox?
They get renamed.
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Not on my Dropbox!
Works on my machine...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Then I better restart dropbox
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Try closing the box and open it again...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I sometimes used DropBox for testing HTTP downloads with WebClient in C#, worked until about a year ago when they applied more strict security rules, couldn't get it working after that ...
I now use 'USB Webserver on a stick' for testing: USBWebserver | USB server[^]
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I don't use either service. I have a facility for uploading files to my web site. If I want to share a file with someone, I simply give them the link, and voila.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The one thing I remember about Dropbox catching my attention years ago is how trivial it was to get access to random a user's files, just by entering semi-random user ID in links and guessing filenames. Whereas with OneDrive, the URLs are so long and complicated it's practically impossible to "guess" by brute-force.
I have no idea whether that's still the case however.
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Game for one with regrets about French actress (6)
Could also be given as: Protection for one with regrets about French actress (6)
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
modified 13-Mar-18 8:17am.
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BARDOT?
It's got DART scrambled in it ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not quite.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Nope.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Moreau ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Nope.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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But...but...but...it's both a game of solitaire and protection.
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