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OneNote & Dropbox

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Rainald Taesler

Flightless Bird
rak wrote:
> I think you misunderstood my posts. My suggestion was to use Groove
> instead of ON, not/not together.


This does not make sense to me.
Groove is no alternative to ON.

Rainald

> "Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:uNferxbnKHA.6084@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> rak wrote:
>>> Rainald Taesler wrote:
>>>> rak wrote:

>>
>>>>> You might want to take a look at Microsoft Groove. It will allow
>>>>> the dynamic sharing you are talking about - not via ON, but in
>>>>> many of the same ways.
>>>>
>>>> I take the liberty to seriously disagree.
>>>> "in many of the same ways"
>>>> means that the mechanisms are not the *same*.
>>>>
>>>> To say it *clearly*:
>>>> Groove has it's *own* way of synching.
>>>> It uses *file*-synching.
>>>> And that is a true killer for the synching built-in in ON.
>>>> The latter does synching on the base of *objects* inside a file.
>>>> And file-based synching - naturally <!> - just kills that.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO Groove is not usable if more than just *one* computer is
>>>> involved.
>>>>
>>>> Rainald
>>>> P.S. You might also see David Rasmussen's article "OneNote 2007 and
>>>> Groove"
>>>>

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/09/21/763982.aspx
>>>
>>> See my reply to Bernd. Groove is a unique animal and does sync
>>> differently.

>>
>> YES, i know.
>>
>>> Actually much, much more efficiently than ON. It allows
>>> major real time (and deferred) collaboration, good security and a
>>> number of tools that could be used for what the op wants to do.

>>
>> For any other kind of application. Not so for OneNote, however.
>>
>>> I agree it probably will not play nice with ON.

>>
>> So pls do not recommend it for the usage with ON!!
>>
>> Rainald
 
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