joshirio
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4 years ago Hi, it depends if they should be allowed to change the data or not. If you need to sync both ways, ie. allowing them to make edits, you could go with the dropbox sync option.
If you don't want them to edit files, I'd recommend to use Syncthing to sync a portable Symphytum folder where you set your folder on your main machine as send-only folder this way you can overwrite any changes they make to the database and reset/force your version on their computers. If you don't want to use the portable version, you could instead also use the new "generic sync" option where you can specify the target directory for the sync folder, in this case you would chose the syncthing folder which is set to send-only.
Maybe it would make sense to implement a "permanent read-only" mode for the cloud sync exactly for such use cases where one wants to only share the data with others without having them edit any.
I work with alot of computer illiterate people. I'd like to share this software and tables with the containing info with them. Is it possible if I create them a dropbox account and upload my Symphytum database to their dropbox, and they can download Symphytum connect to the dropbox and have the same database I have ( so that way if they "accidently" delete it it won't affect my database )? Or Would the windows portable be better in that situation? Thank you, Dean PS - This software makes life so much easier!