[TriLUG] Cloud computing

[Todd Edwards via TriLUG]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Roy Vestal via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Would this be a good alternative for you?
>
>
>    Using davfs2 to mount your Box.com storage.
>

I've used this and, IMO, it's incredibly slow. It would be fine if you're
just using it for backups as I am, but I wouldn't expect to modify files
directly on the mount.


>
> http://www.math.cmu.edu/~gautam/sj/blog/20150807-box-webdav.html
>
> Also, I'm assuming you are using a GUI. According to this article you need
> to set the default program type for editing and Box Edit should recognize
> it. This happens to be LibreOffice on Windows in the article, but I would
> assume that would work in linux.
>
> https://community.box.com/t5/Help-Forum/Box-Edit-with-LibreO
> ffice/td-p/4177
>
> -Roy
>
> On 11/7/16 8:21 AM, Grawburg via TriLUG wrote:
>
>> I use Box.com to save important documents and to work between office and
>> home (strictly personal stuff). Even though Box let's me see a preview of
>> my LibreOffice document I can't edit it in-situ.  Do any of the other
>> cloud-based applications allow editing a file using Linux OS?
>>
>> Brian Grawburg
>>
>>
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