file sharing system

[Melalvai]

I hate posting this right now because I was just griping about how on the "cyburbia" forum, the vast majority of "new posts" are in the Friday Afternoon (=off topic) forum. I wondered if anyone over there actually talks about urban planning, or they just shoot the breeze all day? Yet not only here am I posting in our Open Topic forum, but I've started a couple other threads here recently.

Well, I need some advice, and you all are my peeps!

Any thoughts on file sharing systems like dropbox, google's My Drive, etc? My mom & I have a couple writing projects. We need a folder that we can both access, which we can both edit the files, and that tracks the changes.

We've tried dropbox and it seems to have a bug in it. Once one of us has shared it, we can each make changes to it but we can't see the other person's changes. This is mysterious and disappointing because I've used it with other people and it's worked beautifully.

Google docs was closer to what we wanted except it doesn't have a "track changes" feature.

Google drive, I shared a file with her and selected "edit" as the option, yet she can only comment, not edit. Maybe we're just getting unlucky with the bugs!

[Sylvia]

Have you looked into the Microsoft office web apps? I've not personally tried it but it might have more of the functionality you want.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/

[Melalvai]

Google drive is going to work for us, after all. My mom is pretty smart about computers for a person of her generation, but some of this was too much for her. We figured out what the problem was.

[smilingcat]

make sure it is protected so unauthorized user can't hack into it. And do keep a time-stamped file so you have a fall back position should something happen to work in progress file.

[OakLeaf]

make sure it is protected so unauthorized user can't hack into it. And do keep a time-stamped file so you have a fall back position should something happen to work in progress file.

And a local backup - not only in case of cloud vaporization , but so that you can work on the files offline if you want or need to.