Share a calendar using Dropbox?
Damian
Has anyone tried this? Would it work?
At the moment, I use sunbird with local calendars on my hard drive. I
synchronise my files using Unison.
All works well like this, but I'd like to have the option of sharing my
calendars with my wife and I'd also like to start using Lighting (as
Sunbird's days are now numbered).
Before everyone says 'use google calendar', I've thought about that and
I really don't want to. I don't trust them with my private info.
One good suggestion has been to just have a file on my local network and
subscribe to that. It works well, except that the path to the file is
different for my Windows and Ubuntu boxes, so when I synchronise the
systems with Unison, the link gets lost.
An online line would be the same for all systems, so now I have to
either find an on-line calendar service that I trust, or I've thought
about using my Dropbox account. Would having the files in my dropbox
space and then loading them from there for each instance of Lightning
work? Would there be much of a performance hit? How safe a set up would
it be (in terms of corrupting files if I'm connected from two different
machines)? What happens if I'm trying to work when not on-line?
Looking forward to hearing any thoughts.
Cheers
Damian
Gérard Castermans
DropBox account stores local copy of files on every computer into the "My
DropBox" folder and just sync those local copies (and an online one too!).
It works perfectly well as you may known already.
But using it for your calendar file(s) may not be so funny as you would
expect because of syncing conflicts risks. If a calendar file is modified
on two computers at a time, DropBox will not be ale to choose which one to
keep, will ask it to you and... You will not be able to choose either!
On the other hand, if you are sure you are the only one to use those
calendars on one computer at a time, it will work perfectly if you wait for
DropBox to sync. And it's really fast (of course, if you're not syncing the
latest Terminator at the same time...).
Perhaps the good way to do it would be to use the online dropbox account as
a calendar server, but I think that this don't work (yet?) and Dropbox is
not really done for that kind of use.
www.icalx.com may help you... But if you're not trusting Google, why (yes
why??) will you trust iCalX and why (again) do you trust DropBox?? :)
Those are my thoughts, as you were looking for, hoping it will make you go
some steps forward...
Best regards,
Gérard.
2009/6/4 Damian <sp...@daminator.com>
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Damian
> Hi Damian,
>
> DropBox account stores local copy of files on every computer into the "My
> DropBox" folder and just sync those local copies (and an online one too!).
> It works perfectly well as you may known already.
>
> But using it for your calendar file(s) may not be so funny as you would
> expect because of syncing conflicts risks. If a calendar file is modified
> on two computers at a time, DropBox will not be ale to choose which one to
> keep, will ask it to you and... You will not be able to choose either!
>
> On the other hand, if you are sure you are the only one to use those
> calendars on one computer at a time, it will work perfectly if you wait for
> DropBox to sync. And it's really fast (of course, if you're not syncing the
> latest Terminator at the same time...).
>
> Perhaps the good way to do it would be to use the online dropbox account as
> a calendar server, but I think that this don't work (yet?) and Dropbox is
> not really done for that kind of use.
>
> www.icalx.com may help you... But if you're not trusting Google, why (yes
> why??) will you trust iCalX and why (again) do you trust DropBox?? :)
>
Just because Google wants to know everything about everybody. Search,
Files, emails, calendar. I'm not opposed to online storage. Just giving
it all to one group who scans it all to give me adverts.
> Those are my thoughts, as you were looking for, hoping it will make you go
> some steps forward...
It does indeed. I hadn't heard of icalx before. Thanks
Damian
Tom Hatfield
However, I have tried icalx.com and set it up, and it says that it has
published the file, yet when I go to reload the remote calander on the
netbook computer it does not get any file.
Any suggestions in what I might be doing wrong here?
thanks, Tom