[OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/23/12 5:48 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hello Matthias,
>
> Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on for which you pay 39 USD per year and it
> stores your file modification history forever.
>
> I use Dropbox in many ways:
>
> * I store my source code and projects in it.
> * I even store svn, git and hg repos in it (not very efficient)
> * My LiveCode plugins folder is in my Dropbox
> * I have a Dropbox alpha library that will soon become a beta library and
> be released as soon as I solve some bugs.

That's great Andre! Let us know when it's ready.

I hadn't thought to put LiveCode plugins in Dropbox, that's a good idea. 
BBEdit 10 now lets you store all its library stuff in Dropbox too. I 
moved all the folders that used to be in App Support, and now both my 
laptop and desktop Macs have the same behavior and auxilliary files. 
That's pretty neat.

Almost all the Android file managers sync with Dropbox and several also 
sync with the other major cloud services, so it's painless to get stuff 
over to the tablet.

I also use the free versions of Google Drive and SugarSync. I store a 
lot of my development work on Dropbox, my personal files on SugarSync, 
and some miscellaneous stuff on Drive. I can access any file from all 
three cloud sites from both my Macs, both Android tablets, and my iPad. 
It's a sense of security I didn't have before.

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