Google Drive

[Tom]

Can I store the main .ml data file on the Google Drive folder that is on my hard drive? This means the .ml data file is stored locally on my hard drive, and synced to Google Drive in the cloud.

I have 3 laptops that I use and all of them would be set up with the .ml data file on Google Drive in this way.

Should this work okay?

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Tom. Yes, you can do what you are describing but you might not like it. Let me explain why.

Drive does a file synch, meaning that when the file is changed the more recently changed version of the file replaces the older version. MLO does a record level sync. If two different laptops have MLO open at the same time and you (for example) add a task on one while completing a different task on the other, there is a high probability that one of those changes will be lost.

In order to avoid this risk, you have to make sure that MLO is never open on two laptops at once. Also, when you finish on one laptop you need to close MLO and wait for Drive to finish uploading the changed profile, then go to the other laptop and ensure that Drive has downloaded the Profile since the other laptop uploaded it. And then you can open MLO on the second laptop.

If this is too annoying, then you should consider using MLO sync instead.
-Dwight

[Zainan Victor Zhou]

I am using Dropbox which is effectively the same thing. I kept a main copy in Dropbox and my main PC loads from Dropbox. and then other devices use Cloud Sync with a local copy that is NOT in Dropbox to sync with MLO Cloud. You should choose either MLO Cloud(i think is better) or Dropbox to sync otherwise if you use both, you will get troubled by sync conflict.

Zainan Victor Zhou 周载南
Software Engineer at Google
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Phone: (650) 336-5691
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[Joel Azaria]

Tom,

Despite that some others may have managed to make this work for them I'll have to advise strongly against it.  The way MLO locks and updates it's file (despite it being basically an XML file that should work) it will NOT play nicely.  

If you had just two devices, and you swore on a stack of bibles that you could only ever have one of them open at a time, I'd still tell you to proceed with caution and make sure you have stacks of good backups.  With three devices, there's a very good chance you will one day find yourself very unhappy.  At that point there is also a chance that things go from bad to worse (you find MLO's autobackups corrupted by sync too).

So for what they're worth, my 2c are just bite the bullet and go with cloud sync.  I spent many months trying to make wifi, cloud, local/hybrid cloud and other sync methods work for me and then for me and my assistant (just two PCs). In the end it was all shit, so where MLO is concerned I think that their cloud sync is really the only way.