UR and the cloud, again

[cnewtonne]

Thanks for taking the time to test it this way. It does work even with Dropbox, the problem is when 2 saves occur next to each other in time so that both clients upload at the same time. Testing this on gdrive, I saw both machines uploading which caused a conflict.

This functionality must be native to the app. If we can't fix it, I proposed some workarounds in my previous post. Minimizing 'saves' will help, but the risk is always there.

I'm not sure if UR can 'merge' to urd files, I propose this would be a complex task to do.

Another approach is for UR to allow a user to save a single urd file in a kinook cloud and have a desktop client connect to it. Eliminating 3rd party intermediaries like dropbox and the likes.

I know the current state of software technology is capable of solving it, but it appears Kinook is not yet sold on the idea.

[cnewtonne]

For now, I'll work around it by installing a job scheduler job on all 3 machines that reads a file I put on dropbox within same urd folder. It runs every 5 minute. The name of such file reflects the machine name. When present, the job running on the corresponding machine, will detect it and cause the running UR instance to close. This way I 'remotely' close UR instance that I forget to close and eliminate conflicts. It is sad to have to resort to such tactics, but UR is so critical to my digital life, I can't be as productive and ahead of the competition without it.

[kinook]

Added /exit command-line option in v6.0.