1) Be aware that Dropbox is not simply cloud-based storage. It is cloud-synced storage. Full local copies are kept on every connected machine. So you can use your layout when your Internet connection is down and your files will load at full hard-drive speed. The Internet connection is only needed to sync file changes. Agree that if you have a slow connection it will take a while to upload a changed large file, but that only has to happen once. Dropbox uses LAN Sync so if your master copy changes the Dropbox app will first look for an up-to-date copy on another machine and transfer at full LAN speed.
2) Be aware that with a local networked drive, the risk of file corruption is real because if you have a JMRI file open on more than one machine, both machine are simultaneously using the same physical file and if any changes are made, corruption is a real possibility.
On 15 Jan 2019, at 1:30 PM, SwissChris <chris@...> wrote:
As my internet connection is very slow 134Kb/S I try not to use any cloud based storage. Think of how long it takes to download my roster with the the images plus the Layout XML file total of 243MB. My system works for me and if my internet crashes which it does quite frequently, I can still run the layout.
