Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Sun Feb 9 10:48:46 EST 2014


Google Drive has the same feature. Right click a file, Manage versions.
Never thought about using it for version control, thanks for the idea.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Feb 8, 2014 5:54 PM, "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibbert at mac.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Thank you for sharing that, I looked all over for this when I heard about
> it, but when I saw the add on in the price structure I stopped looking.
>
> I guess Dropbox has one thing in common with LiveCode then - occasionally
> lacking in documentation!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Paul
>
> On 2014-02-08, at 4:57 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
>
> > Paul, Howard-
> >
> > Saturday, February 8, 2014, 3:07:28 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> You need a Business account or a Pro account with add ons for version
> history.
> >
> > Not necessary.
> >
> >> On 2014-02-07, at 12:36 PM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> However, I don't see the stack versioning you describe in any of my
> stack
> >>> files on Dropbox. Is there something specific one needs to do in order
> to
> >>> invoke this characteristic of Dropbox?
> >
> > (the description below is for linux, I assume other OSs are similar)
> >
> > Right-click on the Dropbox icon in the tray
> > Select Launch Dropbox website
> > Find the file you're interested in
> > Right-click the file for the contextual menu
> > Select Previous versions
> > From the list that appears, select one checkbox
> >  (ignore the fact that the checkbox looks like a radio button)
> > Click the Restore button
> >
> > --
> > -Mark Wieder
> > ahsoftware at gmail.com
> >
> >
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