Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Experience with community use of Dropbox?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 14 Apr 2012, at 10:13 AM, Oz wrote:

> If you've used it IN YOUR
> COMMUNITY, I'd love to hear more.

Small working groups might be able to use it —haven't heard that they have. It 
would be nightmare for the community as a whole and create a big divide between 
the tech savvy/friendly and those who don't even want to use email. As much as 
technology creates contact between people and makes many things possible, it 
does so because it allows people at a distance to connect or people who have 
specialized interests to connect. 

The exception in the field of technology has been Google Sites which is a fully 
WSYWIG wiki. Even then, only one team uses it.

Personally — I lost all my passwords using 1Password on Dropbox. I didn't 
realize that when I stopped using Dropbox and deleted the folder that the 
_originals_ of the files are in the Dropbox folder— not in the folder where I 
kept them.

 A case of spoiled Mac user habits — I haven't read a manual in years and 
years. I expect to be able to intuit uses. Not so when you use a cross platform 
app. One is in for surprises! Fortunately, I rarely empty the trash either and 
eventually discovered where my passwords had gone.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org