Is there a way to do this easily? Keep version history of the document on the document? As a .gdoc or .whatever-format or am I resigned in having to download, separately, all the revisions made in the past on said document?
For context: I have a document I've been editing and revising over the years for my own medical history and list of meds, history, etc. etc. and have been using Google Docs to do this, because it was convenient and I didn't have to pay for Microsoft Office and additionally install a good word processor on my PC. Now recently I've purchased Dropbox Personal for cloud storage needs.
I want to do the following: Take the Google Doc and save it as a .gdoc (which isn't an option in the File menu??) and take it over to Dropbox's Vault as an editable hardcopy with its revisions history in tact.
Otherwise, what I have done (before I even comprehended revision history was a thing) is just copy pasted its current version, onto a new .gdoc in Dropbox Vault.
So, is that possible? And if so, how and as easily (lazily) as I possibly can? Also, is this even the right place to ask for this? Apologies if it isn't. I didn't see much else about this specific issue anywhere... (also lazy)
Thanks!
EDIT:
I am by no means a coder in any sense. I'm a full time elderly caretaker and I'm just a guy with a specific, niche?, technical, problem and thought this was the first place to ask without having to go through tech support w/ Google chat etc. And it might also help some other people that like seeing how their documents have changed over the years, history fans etc. At the end of the day it's a programming/coding issue, that could be resolved someway some how... Right?
If I can add pictures here for context, LMK.
Thanks :)
The .gdoc file format is only accessible via Google Docs which is on web. Downloading the file to your local storage means you would have to access it on your device using your local apps (word editor) such as Microsoft Office,Libre Office, etc.(other word editor apps on desktop application level) which is why the .gdoc format is not available when you download. This is also why you won't be able to have it openable from your dropbox.
The version/revision history on Google Docs is intact only to that specific file with that unique ID. So when you download the file, the version history won't be available to the physically downloaded file which is stored on web or even when you make a copy of it, the version history does not get copied, therefore that won't be an option too.
It looks like you'll have to stick to manually copying or making a backup of the current version of the file before editing, since the version history is only kept for a period of 30 days or the last 100 versions, unless manually set to "Keep forever" to keep a version forever.
Google drive version history: https://googledrivepro.com/google-drive-version-history/
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I'm just starting my adventure with programming and VBA and now I have small problem. Sometimes people change extension of files (they have some reasons) but I need to find extension before changing.
For example: first it was doc , then docm, then odt (or pdf, etc.) and I need to find that it was doc at the beginning. I don't know if it's possible.
I thought that if I open file in notepad there is some kind of code in it, and probably part of code may be "origin" extension, but which part is it? Or is there some other way I could use in VBA?
Please Look into #Tim Williams comments, it is not prudent to try to find origin's extension as many a times files are saved in different file formats. However various approaches for keeping track of file version and history of the files are mentioned here-under.
There are some tools(example-XLTools) and processes that will allow you to see the revisions of an Excel sheet. As far as a revision history within the Excel sheet, you will not have any unless you have set this up yourself. There is not a built in change history for Excel. Otherwise File History regularly backs up versions of your files in the Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop folders and the OneDrive files available offline on your PC. Over time, you'll have a complete history of your files. If the originals are lost, damaged, or deleted, you can restore them. You can also browse and restore different versions of your files. For example, if you want to restore an older version of a file (even if it wasn't deleted or lost), you can browse through a timeline, select the version you want, and restore it.
If your files are uploaded to SharePoint and If a list or library on your site tracks versions, you can view version history for items or files, providing you have Read permission to the list or library. The version history contains information about when the item or file was changed, who changed it, and information about what was changed. In libraries, the version history might also contain comments written by the people who made changes.
You can view version history in either of two ways:
In the list or library on your site
In the Microsoft Office Backstage view of a Microsoft Office 2010 document. You can also track changes if you upload to DropBox Or say Box, there also revision history and version changes can be tracked.
assume I have some thesis etc. and want to give the audience the possibility to download the coding part and test it;
Is there a platform for professionally upload it and also keep it there permanently (of course it should not be deleted within a couple of months)
Thanks for your help...
You can use tools such as Git-hub or bitbucket. These allow you to upload code and even have version control. Users can download your code directly and use it if they need to.
I was wanting to use a file sharing server to keep certain files up-to-date and constant across multiple instances of my application across multiple computers - like (for example) writing a multiplayer game, which stores all the player's positions in a text file, and uses something like Dropbox to keep the text file constant across all the applications, and each application instance can change the file with that application's player's position, and then the rest of the applications can update accordingly. This is only an example, and is not what I intend to do using this technology. What I want to do does not rely on fast sharing of data very quickly - but only periodically downloading and updating the text file.
I was wondering how I might be able to do this using the Dropbox API for Objective-C without prompting the user for any Dropbox username/password - just store a single Dropbox account's login information, log into it automatically and update/download the file stored on it?
From what I have found out from experimenting, Dropbox prompts users for their passwords via a web-broswer, and is designed to accommodate multiple accounts, whereas I only need to accommodate the 'Server' account.
So, is there anyway to do this sort of thing using the Dropbox API, or should I use something else. Or do I need to find out how to write my own server. Using some sort of file sharing API seems a lot easier to me than writing an actual server.
Thanks for any help,
Ben
You might think about using Google App Engine (GAE). I had a similar requirement recently and I'm thinking this is a good option when you want centralized data. Plus you can do the no-browser account login by using your own custom authentication, or I think it's even possible via OAuth? Depends on how sensitive the data is I guess. I just rolled my own.
From my research I found that using Dropbox as a server has some issues with scalability, since you'll be limited to maybe 5,000 calls per day. source It's built on Amazon S3, so you could also look at using that directly.
GAE lifts that limit up to 675,000, but can be increased up to 91 million for free.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas
I did find an open-source project for doing this with Java, alternative you could look at Python example
I've written a daemon that continuously checks for updated files and syncs them. I wrote it for my own file manager iOS app. You can find the implementation here:
https://github.com/H2CO3/MyFile/tree/master/DropboxDaemon
I'm personally not an iOS developer but I came across this question while looking for something else and thought I would offer up another potential solution to the OP's question.
Microsoft just released something called Azure Mobile Services which supports iOS development (among other platforms). It's basically a convenient way to set up a back end system complete with push notifications, authentication, etc. without rolling your own. You don't need to know anything about Azure or servers as the setup process walks you through most of it. It is new so keep that in mind, but it looks promising for situations like this.
Here's a 10 minute video explaining how to use it with an iOS developed app along with links to more documentation:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/iOS-Support-in-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services/
Hope this helps.
Is it possible to recreate a scenario like itunes match with iCloud APIs available to-date (i am writing/editing this in april 2012) .. specifically..I mean something like this>
A user creates a media document (audio or video) in my app...and it is automatically uploaded to (his) iCloud space. Then user decides to delete his local copy. But the app still shows the document in let say a table view...and if the user presses play..it begins to stream from iCloud..The user also is able to recreate (download) a local copy of the document. (Just to be sure, I understand the difference between the document I describe here and the concept of UIDocument).
If yes..how would I implement the transfer of the file ..let say a recording of 1 minute video..to the cloud? What folder would it be?
Apple docs state that there shouldnt be a distinction between where the data is stored. No sense of local copy of cloud copy. I think it is possible to do what you ask, but you're likely to get rejected. Use something like amazon AWS for hosting instead. You'd have more control over the files and unless you're going to have tons of users, you'll also qualify for the free tier.
I'm working on some documents on a laptop which is sometimes offline (it runs winXP).
I'd like to backup automatically the documents to a folder to a remote location so that it runs in the background.
I want to edit the documents and forget about backuping and once online - have it all backuped to a remote location, or even better - to an svn server or something that supports versioning.
I want something which is:
1. free
2. does not overload the network too much but only send the diff.
3. works 100%
thanks in advance
DropBox does everything your asking. http://www.getdropbox.com/
Plus it's fully cross platform, Windows, Mac, Linux.
Free up to 2GB.
I like IDrive Online personally. It's Windows/Mac (no Linux), 2 GB free, and here's the important bit: it stores the last 30 revisions of files. And the history for a file isn't counted against your space either; only the most recent version counts. None of the other free online backup solutions I've seen handle versioning as well. It supports continuous backup too. Oh, and they handle being offline beautifully -- even losing connection in the middle of the backup process doesn't bother it.
Dropbox also keeps previous revisions, including of deleted files.