[Qgis-user] QGIS and geopackages in sharepoint environement

[Sebastian Gutwein]

I should clarify we are using Google Drive for Desktop on Windows and Mac
machines.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 5:32 PM chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oops I spoke to soon, please see below...
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:27 PM chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sebastian and list,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:19 PM Sebastian Gutwein <bas at rdgland.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Although it is not recommended we use google drive and as of the latest
>>> release it works ok for most files including Geopackage. In past versions
>>> any time a layer on a geopackage was opened this would cause the file to be
>>> marked as changed and upload the whole file. In the current version (3.26)
>>> this only happens when edit mode is turned on. However saving after edits
>>> is much slower when it is in the Google drive. It appears that the .wal
>>> file decides to load the entire file into itself when in the google drive
>>> before writing the change to the file.  Of course this doesn't prevent
>>> people from overwriting each other's changes if two people are concurrently
>>> editing on different machines.
>>> The file path doesn't seem to be a problem if the files are in the same
>>> location relative to the project file on different machines.
>>> I would be interested if at some point someone created a solution that
>>> allowed for diffs on geopackages using Lutra's
>>> https://github.com/MerginMaps/geodiff . I imagine if that worked there
>>> would be an cloud unsynced local version and a cloud synced local version
>>> that you could trigger a diff operation against.
>>>
>>
>> The problem with Google Drive is actually a problem with Google Drive for
>> Desktop, which is a "file streaming application" and not with the other
>> approach which is synchronization, similar to Dropbox.  In the
>> synchronization approach your changed files on your computer are backed up
>> to the cloud Google Drive.
>>
>> Google Drive for Desktop is a plugin for Windows Navigator that makes
>> files in Google Drive appear as though they are on your computer in the G:
>> drive (or wherever else you might set it up).  If you double-click on one
>> of those files, say foo.docx, then that file will open in Word.  But if you
>> use QGIS to add a layer, the file names that appear in the  "Open OGR
>> Vector Layer" window (for example) don't look like what you might expect.
>>
>> *Note I just tried this on Ubuntu 22.04 with QGIS 3.26.1 and WHOOPS it
>> looks to be working here, so maybe it's not an issue in Windows any longer
>> either.*
>>
>>>
>> I was wrong there.
>
> Things look good until I picked a .shp file to show; the file name that
> came up was a great long thing with lots of x's and y's and what not and
> QGIS would not open it.
>
> Anyway this is Ubuntu not Windows so YMMV.
>
>
> --
> Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
>
> C'est ma façon de parler.
>


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