When I click documents or spreadsheets in Google Drive it launches Quickoffice (I have the regular version not the full version), which is fine. But when I make a change and try to save the document it keeps saying "unable to save file".
So how are we suppose to edit document/spreadsheets now?
Also Drive doesn't give you the option to convert files to Google Files anymore, what's with that?
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I'm try out Polaris Office and drop box as a combination...is there any way to set the default folder location in PO to dropbox?
Not a huge deal but it would simplify things if I didn't have to pick it everytime I wanted to save a doc.
I'm also interested in this topic. anyone knows a possibility, polaris office to link with dropbox? apparently it only works with box.net. someone has a tip?
Unless you want to screw with smb/nfs mounting a PC or Mac's Dropbox, AFAIK you will have to save the file locally then add it via the Dropbox app or launch PO through DB. I don't think saving to e.g. /mnt/sdcard/dropbox/ will work but I have never tried it.
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You need to use something like Titanium sync:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.MediaSync&feature=search_result
It will automatically upload a file(s) in folders you set to Dropbox (1-way sync).
If you want to edit the file, open it on the TF, edit and save onto the TF. The sync app will detect the change and immediately upload and overwrite the previous version on Dropbox (unless you save it as a different filename obviously).
If you set the Dropbox folder to be uploaded by the sync app, that might give you quite close to a 2-way sync even if it is a bit inefficient (i.e. if you download a file from DB to TF, then the sync app will upload it again but it will be the same file so its not the end of the world) then you can edit and backup to DB.
So I like it so far, but when I have no clue how to access the google docs with this app that was preinstalled in my tablet. The only option its giving me is box.net sync.
How do I get it to do Google Docs?
You're not alone.
It seems many people have had problems with only being able to add a box.net account instead of Google Docs and box.net. The problem seems to exist only with certain builds of Polaris Office, because both options are available to some users. I'm not sure if the most recent versions have dropped support for Google Docs or if this is just a bug that exists in some builds that many of us ended up with.
I haven't found a real solution for the missing Polaris feature, but you could:
- Download the Google Docs app.
- Access your docs using the Google Docs app.
- Long press on one of your documents and use the "Open With" option to open the file with Polaris Office.
- Edit/save your files using Polaris.
- Then use the Send menu option in Polaris and select "Docs" (Google Docs).
- You'll be given the option to upload the file to your Google Docs account with or without conversion to Google Docs formats.
- You should see a notification of whether the upload completed successfully or not.
- Go back to the Google Docs app and you should see your updated file listed.
I hope that helps.
k_t_b said:
You're not alone.
It seems many people have had problems with only being able to add a box.net account instead of Google Docs and box.net. The problem seems to exist only with certain builds of Polaris Office, because both options are available to some users. I'm not sure if the most recent versions have dropped support for Google Docs or if this is just a bug that exists in some builds that many of us ended up with.
I haven't found a real solution for the missing Polaris feature, but you could:
- Download the Google Docs app.
- Access your docs using the Google Docs app.
- Long press on one of your documents and use the "Open With" option to open the file with Polaris Office.
- Edit/save your files using Polaris.
- Then use the Send menu option in Polaris and select "Docs" (Google Docs).
- You'll be given the option to upload the file to your Google Docs account with or without conversion to Google Docs formats.
- You should see a notification of whether the upload completed successfully or not.
- Go back to the Google Docs app and you should see your updated file listed.
I hope that helps.
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Much appreciated! I guess I'll have to go the alternate route. What a shame. I feel that this is either a bug or a development choice by Samsung. I really like this tablet, but they are making it hard for me to choose their products again.
hi!
i own both android and ios devices...but have the same issue: dropbox and drive apps dowsn't store files when offline.
so if i just need to read a txt and there's no wifi, i can't open it.
and i can't select "favourite" for all the thousand files i store on the cloud. (for dropbox)
it's really annoying.
i found that an app on ios, notebooks for ipad, syncs with dropbox and allows me to read and modify txt while offline, and then automatically upload changes when i come back online.
there's anything similar on android?
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Previously, i was able to download a file from dropbox and save it to my device. Maybe i'm just lost, but i dont see the option to do that. Also, when i was doing this previously, there was a folder called Dropbox in File Manager HD that kept (and synced) all of the items i downloaded from Dropbox. I dont see that now.
You can download (export) a file by either:
1) Long-pressing on a file and selecting Export, or
2) Pressing the down-arrow enclosed by a circle (on the right) of a file, and selecting Export
As for the folder-syncing, as long as i've used Dropbox on Android, they haven't supported folder synchronization. I think I've read somewhere that they used to support it, but took it out. There might be a 3rd party app on the Google Play store that you can get to emulate this feature though.
The App to sync dropbox called "FolderSync" and "Dropsync"
Thanks guys. Thought i was going insane.
Does anyone know an app that I can use to take notes on my Nexus 7, have them save to my Google Drive so that I can open them on my Mac, and my Nexus?
It woud be a bonus if I can open/edit them on my iPhone as well, but thats not a requirement.
I looked into Evernote, but for offline use they charge $45/yr.
No one has any ideas?
Is there a reason the Google Drive app won't work for you? You can create docs with that directly in Google Drive. If you're after an offline solution then you need to explain what you want more as there's obviously no offline sync solution.
Archer said:
Is there a reason the Google Drive app won't work for you? You can create docs with that directly in Google Drive. If you're after an offline solution then you need to explain what you want more as there's obviously no offline sync solution.
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Yes an offline solution is what I would be hoping for. If there was an App that i could launch, type up what I need and then when I save wrote to a local folder saved on my google drive then when I am back in WiFi range that file would hit the cloud and then sync to my Home desktop. That way I dont have to worry about online or offline.
Flick Note?
Okay, scratch that... Flick Note is Simplenote syncing.
Hit the "make available offline" button in Drive ?
Use an offline text-editor, save it, should sync ?
I've never tried it, I'd have to give it a shot.
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Hit the "make available offline" button in Drive ?
Use an offline text-editor, save it, should sync ?
I've never tried it, I'd have to give it a shot.
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While this will work, its does not allow for "Creating New Documents"..
Plus, not sure if just any text-editor will be able to read the Google Doc formats.
A basic document created from within Google Drive/Docs has the file format of .gdoc
Enabling "Offline" access, might convert the file to a standard .doc format, but I don't know for sure.