FH files and the Cloud?

robinch · Post by **robinch** » 29 Jan 2013 13:05

Apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this, or it's dealt with somewhere in front of my nose, but I would like to keep my master FH project file in the Cloud (say on Skydrive) so that I can work on it at any one of my various computers and not have to update/sync local files. Has anyone any experience of this? So far I can't get it to work. Thanks.

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Post by **tatewise** » 29 Jan 2013 14:10

There is plenty on this topic at FHUG Downloads ~ Synchronise & Backup Tools.
In particular checkout SkyDrive and Dropbox.

What have you tried, and what did not work?

robinch · Post by **robinch** » 29 Jan 2013 20:49

Thanks Mike. Couldn't see Skydrive or Dropbox mentioned on that page, and the useful link appears to be mainly about migrating from one PC to another. The issue I'm facing is that these cloud sites generally accept/upload individual files only, not folders, so I have to re-create the folder structure for FH and put the files into it. I suspect then that the FH program simply doesn't recognise the new structure so can't make the necessary connections. Certainly hasn't worked yet, so I'm looking for a workaround or solution from someone who's done it already. Any help appreciated.

robinch · Post by **robinch** » 29 Jan 2013 20:53

Ah. Found skydrive. On the case..

robinch · Post by **robinch** » 29 Jan 2013 20:59

... and still no further forward,sadly. Skydrive can't upload folders.

robinch · Post by **robinch** » 29 Jan 2013 21:14

However with Dropbox it works. Many thanks.

Post by **tatewise** » 29 Jan 2013 21:58

I have FH running with the Family Historian Projects folder in the SkyDrive folder within My Documents on my two PC.

Are you sure you have downloaded & installed the latest SkyDrive application specified in the Utility ~ Microsoft SkyDrive page?
When run this creates the SkyDrive folder in your My Documents folder on your PC.
It then synchronises anything in that folder with the cloud.
You do not drag & drop files to SkyDrive as you had to with its earlier incarnation.
See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skyd ... -cant-faq# and open details for Sorry, SkyDrive can't upload folders or empty files.

It is worth persevering with SkyDrive because you get 7MB free instead of only 2MB.

johnmorrisoniom · Post by **johnmorrisoniom** » 30 Jan 2013 07:34

The downside with skydrive, is that it will not work with Win XP, whereas dropbox does.

I have also tried Google drive.
This takes far to long to synchronise, and then converts any text files to google docs, so they then not synchronised to the google drive folder on the PC.

Johnyeates · Post by **Johnyeates** » 08 Feb 2013 10:30

I have been using Skydrive until last month (Jan) when it stuck on 'Processing Changes' which according to the forum is a big problem and is still not fixed after six weeks!! Worst of all Skydrive started to delete some of my files so I have lost trust in the system and have stopped using it.
Unfortunately Dropbox is about four times the cost so I have put cloud storage on hold for my 10Gb requirements.

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