[Framers] Anyone using OneDrive as a repository?

Peter Gold peter at petergold.photography
Thu Mar 10 12:20:18 PST 2016


I think DropBox has a "professional" or "business" option. Not sure if it
would work for check-in/out type of use.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
wrote:

> StarTeam is a revision control system. Microsoft's counterpart is Team
> Foundation Server, which is fine if you're already paying for it
> through a MSDN subscription or whatever. Subversion (SVN) is probably
> the most popular alternative.
>
> OneDrive is MS's answer to Google Drive and Dropbox. I don't think any
> of those is a good choice as a repository for shared files when you
> want to make sure only one person edits them at a time. Even as a
> single user I've run into file locking conflicts that were a pain to
> resolve.
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Michael Norton <mnorton at openspan.com>
> wrote:
> > Anyone using Microsoft OneDrive as a repository for Frame, RoboHelp,
> Word, graphics, and PDF documentation files?
> >
> > Looks like I've been given the task of moving from our current
> repository (StarTeam) to something else, preferably OneDrive. I'm mainly
> using StarTeam as a backup location, so no content management capabilities
> are needed. Simple check in/check out for one to two writers should
> suffice. I'm not familiar with OneDrive and maybe some of you are, any
> suggestions or critiques would be welcome.
>


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