Here today at the RYA Volvo Youth Championships 2011, I managed to
corrupt a Sailwave file after a set of race results had been entered
and saved to the Dropbox folder. This was only discovered when the
next set of results came to be entered and the file opened to show
that that instead of the expected 5 sets of race results being in
the file there were only 4! After a bit of head scratching over
whether the R5 results had been entered or not, we were convinced
they had been entered when we went and looked at the official notice
board results section and there the overall results were including
R5.
Off to the Dropbox folder, right click on the file and select
Dropbox context menu option View Previous Versions and select
previous version required, panic and possible retyping of 50+
results over
We also use Dropbox extensively here at Vallarta Yacht Club. It has been a lifesaver.
You also can't beat the price, free! Highly recommended.
Without wanting to be too critical since it is free - it would be even
better with some access control when sharing - eg share read only for
some and read-write for others... I know version Hx helps but its not
perfect...
We also use Dropbox extensively here at Vallarta Yacht Club. It has been a lifesaver.
You also can't beat the price, free! Highly recommended.
Without wanting to be too critical since it is free - it would be even
better with some access control when sharing - eg share read only for
some and read-write for others... I know version Hx helps but its not
perfect...
Without wanting to be too critical since it is free - it would be even
better with some access control when sharing - eg share read only for
some and read-write for others... I know version Hx helps but its not
perfect...
Agreed. We have been able to do that sort of thing with Google Docs (also free and recommended). Dropbox is new - perhaps as they mature better permissioning will be implemented.
One thing you can't do with (just) permissioning: The owner of one of our Pan Am Games folders unintentionally deleted her whole folder. Thanks to dropbox's versioning capability, it was a simple job to recover everything.
Someone on here posted an add on application the other day.
I’ve had an idea to create another. For some time I’;ve been posting about our crazy SIs that say points go to crew and helm not the helm and boat. i.e. you can switch boat through the series and even switch from help to crew etc. Designed to encourage more people on the water, Sailwave can’t cope and until sailwave online exists (and possibly even then) its not going to happen…
However, I suspect its possible to do something with the sailwave file to parse out the helms and crews into a new file with points etc which can then be published…
So - I can programme in lots of things (badly in them all) - what would people suggest to allow this to be shared with the sailwave community as a file to pass the sailwave series through to generate a new file and then publish from it…?
writing in Java makes sense to me. reasonably platform free so it could work on OSX and Linux without having to run an emulator too, though of course you have to run the emulator to run Sailwave itself. gotcha! just keep away from the proprietary stuff. please.
Someone on here posted an add on application the other day.
I've had
an idea to create another. For some time I';ve been posting about our crazy
SIs that say points go to crew and helm not the helm and boat. i.e. you can
switch boat through the series and even switch from help to crew etc.
Designed to encourage more people on the water, Sailwave can't cope and
until sailwave online exists (and possibly even then) its not going to
happen...
However, I suspect its possible to do something with the
sailwave file to parse out the helms and crews into a new file with points
etc which can then be published...
So - I can programme in lots of things
(badly in them all) - what would people suggest to allow this to be shared
with the sailwave community as a file to pass the sailwave series through
to generate a new file and then publish from it...?
writing in Java makes sense to me. reasonably platform free so it could work on OSX and Linux without having to run an emulator too, though of course you have to run the emulator to run Sailwave itself. gotcha! just keep away from the proprietary stuff. please.
