{"id":190,"date":"2020-11-26T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-11-26T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:21:21","slug":"to-auto-sync-or-not-to-auto-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/to-auto-sync-or-not-to-auto-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"To Auto-Sync or Not to Auto-Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most requested features I have had was the auto-sync to google drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem I always hit was how do you deal with overwriting  when you accidentally have TWO devices doing the same thing!  But Google drive does one nice thing. It KEEPS a version history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is great because it means you can always recover from a<strong> bad upload <\/strong>by simply downloading  an older version of the file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Step 1 : Log into Google Drive and find this file<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scrnli_26_11_2020_12-10-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Step 2 : Right click and find the &#8220;Manage Versions&#8221; Option<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"789\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions.jpg 789w, https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions-768x701.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This will give you this screen &#8211; you can find the last &#8216;good&#8217; version and download it by clicking on the &#8216;three dots&#8217; menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"605\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions-download.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions-download.jpg 605w, https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/versions-download-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This can also be used to create a &#8216;snapshot&#8217; of your work at ANY POINT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you have the file on your device you can load it in using the &#8220;Upload Database&#8221; option on the main screen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most requested features I have had was the auto-sync to google drive. The problem I always hit was how do you deal with overwriting when you accidentally have TWO devices doing the same thing! But Google drive does one nice thing. It KEEPS a version history This is great because it means &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/to-auto-sync-or-not-to-auto-sync\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Auto-Sync or Not to Auto-Sync&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}