Re: Editing files in the cloud - google notebook/dropbox or something else

[Mario Lassnig]

On 11-9-14 14:25 , suvayu ali wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Johnny<yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>  wrote:
> > There's probably someone already doing this, which I am not, but it
> > should be doable just through Ange-FTP?
>
> I am not so sure its as trivial as that. The cloud services the OP
> mentions (Google, Dropbox etc) don't provide read write access to
> files over regular network protocols. AFAIK you have to use their API
> to communicate. This makes any such direct attempt to edit rather
> non-trivial.

Well, at least Dropbox "mounts" its cloud storage as a directory
to your local filesystem, so you don't have to do anything special.

~m.