Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Way to store my master TM on cloud and access it with CAT
Poster: Balasubramaniam L.
Post title: Thank you for this tip!
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
Watch out with OneDrive, which I tried. It has all kinds of limitations no one tells you about. For example, it doesn't do differential sync (not entirely sure this is the right term), meaning: if you make one small change in a 500MB TM (or a 1GB glossary file), OneDrive wil have to re-upload the entire file, every single time it changes. Which is obviously insane and stupid.
Dropbox does offer differential sync (as do several other providers); it only uploads the parts that have changed. [/quote]
Many thanks for this tip. I have been using OneDrive to keep my TMs and have been facing all sorts of problems. One issue is that my desktop runs on Windows 7 and the laptop on Windows 8, and the OneDrive on both these seem to be a bit different and incompatible.
I have also faced the issue of large TMs taking an inordinately long time to synchronize.
I had to abandon OneDrive because of these issues. I will now try Dropbox and hopefully will have better luck.
What do you think of GoogleDrive? Does it perform any better than OneDrive, or does it have the same issues? At least the issue of different versions in Windows 7 and 8 won't be there as the same Google Drive will be used on both.
The reason for asking is that we get a larger cloud drive with GoogleDrive (15 GB, I think) than Dropbox (2 GB).
Also, are confidentiality issues involved when we keep things like TMs on the cloud?
Topic: Way to store my master TM on cloud and access it with CAT
Poster: Balasubramaniam L.
Post title: Thank you for this tip!
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
Watch out with OneDrive, which I tried. It has all kinds of limitations no one tells you about. For example, it doesn't do differential sync (not entirely sure this is the right term), meaning: if you make one small change in a 500MB TM (or a 1GB glossary file), OneDrive wil have to re-upload the entire file, every single time it changes. Which is obviously insane and stupid.
Dropbox does offer differential sync (as do several other providers); it only uploads the parts that have changed. [/quote]
Many thanks for this tip. I have been using OneDrive to keep my TMs and have been facing all sorts of problems. One issue is that my desktop runs on Windows 7 and the laptop on Windows 8, and the OneDrive on both these seem to be a bit different and incompatible.
I have also faced the issue of large TMs taking an inordinately long time to synchronize.
I had to abandon OneDrive because of these issues. I will now try Dropbox and hopefully will have better luck.
What do you think of GoogleDrive? Does it perform any better than OneDrive, or does it have the same issues? At least the issue of different versions in Windows 7 and 8 won't be there as the same Google Drive will be used on both.
The reason for asking is that we get a larger cloud drive with GoogleDrive (15 GB, I think) than Dropbox (2 GB).
Also, are confidentiality issues involved when we keep things like TMs on the cloud?