I should clarify we are using Google Drive for Desktop on Windows and Mac machines.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 5:32 PM chris hermansen <clherman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oops I spoke to soon, please see below... > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:27 PM chris hermansen <clherman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sebastian and list, >> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:19 PM Sebastian Gutwein <b...@rdgland.com> wrote: >> >>> Although it is not recommended we use google drive and as of the latest >>> release it works ok for most files including Geopackage. In past versions >>> any time a layer on a geopackage was opened this would cause the file to be >>> marked as changed and upload the whole file. In the current version (3.26) >>> this only happens when edit mode is turned on. However saving after edits >>> is much slower when it is in the Google drive. It appears that the .wal >>> file decides to load the entire file into itself when in the google drive >>> before writing the change to the file. Of course this doesn't prevent >>> people from overwriting each other's changes if two people are concurrently >>> editing on different machines. >>> The file path doesn't seem to be a problem if the files are in the same >>> location relative to the project file on different machines. >>> I would be interested if at some point someone created a solution that >>> allowed for diffs on geopackages using Lutra's >>> https://github.com/MerginMaps/geodiff . I imagine if that worked there >>> would be an cloud unsynced local version and a cloud synced local version >>> that you could trigger a diff operation against. >>> >> >> The problem with Google Drive is actually a problem with Google Drive for >> Desktop, which is a "file streaming application" and not with the other >> approach which is synchronization, similar to Dropbox. In the >> synchronization approach your changed files on your computer are backed up >> to the cloud Google Drive. >> >> Google Drive for Desktop is a plugin for Windows Navigator that makes >> files in Google Drive appear as though they are on your computer in the G: >> drive (or wherever else you might set it up). If you double-click on one >> of those files, say foo.docx, then that file will open in Word. But if you >> use QGIS to add a layer, the file names that appear in the "Open OGR >> Vector Layer" window (for example) don't look like what you might expect. >> >> *Note I just tried this on Ubuntu 22.04 with QGIS 3.26.1 and WHOOPS it >> looks to be working here, so maybe it's not an issue in Windows any longer >> either.* >> >>> >> I was wrong there. > > Things look good until I picked a .shp file to show; the file name that > came up was a great long thing with lots of x's and y's and what not and > QGIS would not open it. > > Anyway this is Ubuntu not Windows so YMMV. > > > -- > Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com > > C'est ma façon de parler. > -- ___________________________ Sebastian "Bas* " Gutwein *rhymes with Josh Regenerative Design Group 1 Chevalier Ave Greenfield, Ma 01301 Web: regenerativedesigngroup.com (631) 241-1018 *Look close, think big, make change. *
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