Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-24 Thread stephen barncard
I will, Andre! Thanks for the tip on the new Panic products. I love that company and those guys. Buying Coda 2 now. I, too was an early adopter and long time user of Audion. Long ago they published a (often funny) story on their site about their awkward meeting with Steve Jobs and how Audion al

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-24 Thread Andre Garzia
Stephen, When you talk to them again please tell them that a a guy in Brazil thinks they are awesome and used their products since Audion (and still used Audion up until Lion stopped running it). By the way, have you seen the new Coda 2 and Diet Coda? Cheers andre On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:29 A

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread stephen barncard
I've been talking to the developers of Transmit (and Coda) and suggested that the allow the user to select the place for settings files for that app.. sqb On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/23/12 5:48 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > >> Hello Matthias, >> >> Packrat is a Drop

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/23/12 5:48 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Matthias, Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on for which you pay 39 USD per year and it stores your file modification history forever. I use Dropbox in many ways: * I store my source code and projects in it. * I even store svn, git and hg repos in it (n

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On May 23, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> On May 23, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: >> >>> If you're not a Packrat user, your history is retained only for 30 days >> if I remember correctly. This is enough to save your life

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On May 23, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > > > If you're not a Packrat user, your history is retained only for 30 days > if I remember correctly. This is enough to save your life but I am really > paranoid and the illusion of it being th

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Tim Jones
On May 23, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > If you're not a Packrat user, your history is retained only for 30 days if I > remember correctly. This is enough to save your life but I am really paranoid > and the illusion of it being there forever appeals to me. Ooh, and I'm paranoid of an

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andre, I see what you mean. I just make a copy of my hard disk every month, but I can imagine that it is convenient to do this on-line. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkp

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > I'm no Pro user and I have no Packrat. If you're not a Packrat user, your history is retained only for 30 days if I remember correctly. This is enough to save your life but I am really paranoid and the

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > Btw.: Any news about your social network library suite? > Matthias, The dropbox library is a part of it. I know everyone is waiting but both twitter and facebook changed their API not long ago and I am

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Matthias, Andre, I had the same problem as Andre recently. Having collected 12GB of free space on Dropbox, I now back up important projects on Dropbox. When I deleted something accidentally, I just went to the Dropbox website, restored the file and automtically downloaded it to my computer. I'm

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Andre, I've just srarted using Google Drive like this and it seems to work great too. Good idea about the plugins - up to now, I've just put my stack files in there. Googe Drive has a versioning system in the free version although I don't know how many versions they keep or how long they keep

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Thanks for clarifying Am 24.05.2012 um 00:48 schrieb Andre Garzia: > Hello Matthias, > > Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on for which you pay 39 USD per year and it > stores your file modification history forever. > > I use Dropbox in many ways: > > * I store my source code and projects in it. > *

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Matthias, Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on for which you pay 39 USD per year and it stores your file modification history forever. I use Dropbox in many ways: * I store my source code and projects in it. * I even store svn, git and hg repos in it (not very efficient) * My LiveCode plugins f

Re: [OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Andre, i am thinking about an upgrade now for a while. And the packrat feature is another argument to upgrade. Could you please tell, how your are using dropbox for your development? Are you using Dropbox directly from LiveCode (open from /saving to Dropbox)? Or do you just backup your revstu

[OT] Saved by Dropbox Packrat

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I am a heavy Dropbox user and keep all my LiveCode stuff inside it. I've been working with a stack for a while and then today I needed the old version from a month ago with a completely different interface and behavior. Thanks to Dropbox Packrat, I could "rewind" time and pick the old versi