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ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Once I get past the Geek-babble hype, this is something I would find very useful. I need to share a few documents with a colleague in another town - small spreadsheets and a couple of html wikis. These require regular updating, although we would never be working on them at the same time.

I've looked at Google Docs but have some issues:-
- Google is notoriously cavalier with privacy and security. You can't password protect individual documents in Google Docs and although they have been asked for that feature ever since they launched, Google can't be arsed;
- you can only edit documents online if you convert to GD's format. Their Excel clone is slow and clunky and anyway we are both familiar with Excel. Their html upload just stores the wikis as raw text.

Does anyone have another simple and preferably free solution? I've looked at Dropbox, which might be worth trying, but what have other people come across?
 

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Once I get past the Geek-babble hype, this is something I would find very useful. I need to share a few documents with a colleague in another town - small spreadsheets and a couple of html wikis. These require regular updating, although we would never be working on them at the same time.

I've looked at Google Docs but have some issues:-
- Google is notoriously cavalier with privacy and security. You can't password protect individual documents in Google Docs and although they have been asked for that feature ever since they launched, Google can't be arsed;
- you can only edit documents online if you convert to GD's format. Their Excel clone is slow and clunky and anyway we are both familiar with Excel. Their html upload just stores the wikis as raw text.

Does anyone have another simple and preferably free solution? I've looked at Dropbox, which might be worth trying, but what have other people come across?

I use Dropbox all the time for keeping documents that I need to be able to access from work, home and on my phone on the move and I find it works well. There's also zumodrive but that started to upset my virus checker. I'm not sure if my VC is just paranoid though but I installed anyway as Dropbox seems to do the job.
 

benb

Evidence based cyclist
Location
Epsom
I've heard good things about Zoho, but haven't used it myself. +1 for Dropbox
 
I have used Box.Net in the past for this purpose...enables just what you want, and can be done in the free trial... 25MB file size and 1GB total
 
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