Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive
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@Dashrender said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
@coliver said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
I am pretty sure you can mount a Sharepoint site natively in Windows via WebDAV (I really like this technology if you haven't noticed).
man, that seems dangerous - does versioning still apply if you do that?
Yep. WebDAV is literally just an interface to the website. All the backend database specific things still carry through. It is susceptible to crypto-esque ransomware but with the Sharepoint backend there is some protection.
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Sounds like I'm not missing anything obvious then!
I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?
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@Carnival-Boy said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
Sounds like I'm not missing anything obvious then!
I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?
WebDAV doesn't store anything on the local machine but credentials and connection information. Working on a document and saving it instantly saves it directly to the server without hitting the local hard disk.
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@coliver said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
I am pretty sure you can mount a Sharepoint site natively in Windows via WebDAV (I really like this technology if you haven't noticed).
Cool. By mounting, do you mean mapping it to a drive letter? This works very easily, but is this the only way (mapped drives being a bit meh).
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@Carnival-Boy said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
@coliver said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
I am pretty sure you can mount a Sharepoint site natively in Windows via WebDAV (I really like this technology if you haven't noticed).
Cool. By mounting, do you mean mapping it to a drive letter? This works very easily, but is this the only way (mapped drives being a bit meh).
You can also add network locations as a folder I think.
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Yeah. The address is \\mydomain.sharepoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRootNo, I can't figure out how to add it without mapping to a drive letter.
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After a reboot, I can't get WebDAV to work at all.
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@coliver said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
@Carnival-Boy said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
Sounds like I'm not missing anything obvious then!
I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?
WebDAV doesn't store anything on the local machine but credentials and connection information. Working on a document and saving it instantly saves it directly to the server without hitting the local hard disk.
Are you sure that no Filename.do~ gets created during the editing session? If it does, and someone wants information bad enough, they could try to recover that temp file.
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@Dashrender said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
@coliver said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
@Carnival-Boy said in Opening files directly from Sharepoint online or Google Drive:
Sounds like I'm not missing anything obvious then!
I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?
WebDAV doesn't store anything on the local machine but credentials and connection information. Working on a document and saving it instantly saves it directly to the server without hitting the local hard disk.
Are you sure that no Filename.do~ gets created during the editing session? If it does, and someone wants information bad enough, they could try to recover that temp file.
If that is the behavior of the application to store a temporary file to the local disk then that will probably happen. WebDAV does nothing to prevent the applications default behavior.
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@Carnival-Boy said
I see to recall @scottalanmiller saying recently that you don't need to encrypt a laptop hard drive because you should never store anything on it - everything should be cloud only. I'm kinda on board with that, but I don't understand how you do that. Like, he recommends LibreOffice (I think?) but how do you open a Word document stored in Sharepoint in LibreOffice without downloading it onto the laptop first?
I think part of the completion of that thought is to only use data in applications that are cloud-data-aware.
So, you would only use Office documents. (For example, I asked "what about text files", and he said, just put it in Word.)
You would only put pictures and things in a picture-aware app (such as Flickr.)
Adobe stuff in Adobe apps.
Anything that still falls through the cracks you'd have to download locally.
At least I think that is the drift...
