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#1 Sam Morgan

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 10:05 AM

Wondering if anyone has successfully gone to a cloud service like dropbox, onedrive, etc as their default projects location?  I'm talking moving the projects folder from its location on the computer hard drive to be in dropbox so every time you start a new project, the project folder is in the cloud drive instead of on the computer.  I'm already saving everything else to dropbox for all my work...3D views, PDFs, animations, etc....would be nice to get everything there.  I work remotely frequently from a surface book, and the 256gb hard drive starts to fill up fast and every few months I have to spend hours cleaning things up, moving old projects to dropbox, etc etc.  

 

I asked tech support about this some time ago and it sounded theoretically possible although they had concerns about the clock time and whether multiple computers, dropbox, etc could all be on exactly the same time and not screw up that feature in the softplan programming.  If things slow down around here one of these days, I'll experiment, but right now I don't have time to try and end up with a problem that takes hours or days to fix.  Hoping someone else has thought about this, tried it, and found success!

 

 

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#2 Gary McKeon

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 10:13 AM

I've been using it this way for several years with no issues at all. I would just leave the projects folder in Softplan and instead copy it over and then change your default location within System Options.



#3 Almon Gordon Anderson

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 10:31 AM

Same here, have been using dropbox for years and just recently switched over to one drive. Both work just fine and never had any clock time issues



#4 Thomas Davis

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 03:14 PM

Dropbox works great, but it still stores files on your local drive.
It basically replicates your folders to the cloud, so it is not a "cloud only" storage option

 

I believe onedrive or google drive are cloud only options.

You may also want to look at Box



#5 Sam Morgan

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 08:48 PM

Tommy,

 

Dropbox has a feature called "selective sync" so you can tell it not to put some folders on your local drive.  I do that all the time with projects that are complete that I don't need to access very often



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Posted 29 November 2018 - 07:16 AM

Tommy,

 

Dropbox has a feature called "selective sync" so you can tell it not to put some folders on your local drive.  I do that all the time with projects that are complete that I don't need to access very often

That is correct, but they still reside on your local drive and not completely in the cloud






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