[ale] google spreadsheet is pretty cool

[Greg Freemyer]

I think others were "logged in", but that I was the only one actively editing.

It seems that each time you move from cell to cell the data is sync'ed
back to the main google server.

If for some reason the sync fails for a few seconds, it aborts and the
edit is lost.  (Or IIRC you can change to a degraded read-only mode,
but I have not tried that and I'm not sure how you revert to full
read/write.

Alternatively, you can disable sync and require manual saves, but that
sounds bad on a shared spreadsheet.  Maybe if you had someother scheme
in place to ensure no edit collisions taking place.  ie. Person A can
make edits in the morning and Person B can maked edits in the evening.

Greg

On 9/26/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Were you sharing with others at the same time? If it happened for a one-man
> editing, the reliability of the sync would be questionable for multi-person
> sharing.
>
>
> On 9/25/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/25/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > > It's been working pretty nicely.  I've lost a cell entry here or
> > > > there, but nothing major.
> > > You don't consider losing a cell entry "major?"
> >
> > It has told me when it happened.
> >
> > So I do a little typing, an error message comes up about losing sync
> > or whatever and tells me to do a reconnect/refresh.  After the
> > refresh, my last entry may be gone and I simply redo it.  If it was a
> > silent data loss, I'd be a lot more concerned.
> >
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