topic Using Alfresco while offline: My findings in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-alfresco-while-offline-my-findings/m-p/265406#M218536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For users who take the plane/train/subway often, WebDAV is not a solution.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>How to view/edit Alfresco documents when offline, and ensure easy synchronization?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have researched this for a client, and here are my findings:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://aegif-labo.blogspot.jp/2012/04/alfresco-how-to-keep-working-even-when.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://aegif-labo.blogspot.jp/2012/04/alfresco-how-to-keep-working-even-when.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Your critical feedback is very welcome <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you know any other way to keep in sync with an Alfresco repo, be sure to let me know!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Excerpt:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== 1) </SPAN><A href="http://cmissync.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CmisSync</A><SPAN> ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Very similar to the Dropbox client, lets you sync with any Alfresco content.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Free, Open Source.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>.NET/Mono, Linux/Mac port not finished yet.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== 2) </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_file_list_4.2.b" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alfresco Desktop Sync</A><SPAN> ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Official Alfresco offline client. Let's you sync any Share Site or directory within a site.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Free.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Java, Linux/Mac/Windows.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Not to be confused with an older project that has the same name and comes up first on Google, hosted on addons.alfresco.com and SourceForge.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== 3) </SPAN><A href="http://ftpbox.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">FTPBOX</A><SPAN> ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you like DropBox, you will love FTPbox.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The user interface is the same, with tray icon and almost no configuration needed.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Forget about 2GB limits and the security risk associated with externally-hosted data: you now have an unlimited DropBox for free, and the files are straight from your smart Alfresco repository!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The bad news: FTPbox is not compatible with Mac/Linux.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The good news: FTPbox is open source, so porting to Mac/Linux is a matter of motivation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== 4) </SPAN><A href="http://offlinefs.sourceforge.net/wiki/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OFS</A><SPAN> ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>UNIX users will know that FUSE allows to easily mount/unmount any kind of filesystem.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>OFS (Offline FileSystem) allows you to maintain an offline copy of any remote filesystem.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>It can take advantage of Alfresco's NFS interface.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately, this solution is not usable on Windows until Windows allows userspace filesystems.</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://superuser.com/questions/179436/is-it-possible-to-use-fuse-with-windows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://superuser.com/questions/179436/is-it-possible-to-use-fuse-with-windows</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== 5) </SPAN><A href="http://www.re.be/webdav_sync" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WEBDAV SYNC</A><SPAN> ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>WebDAV Sync is a command-line tool that can synchronize documents using Alfresco's WebDAV interface.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Programmers love command-line tools, but it is not for office users…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>WebDAV Sync is portable (Java) and open source, so it is a great choice for integration with existing client-side software (for instance if your company has a custom VoIP/chat/PIM app)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>=== CONCLUSION ===</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was hoping that version 3 of Adobe Drive (which supports CMIS) would offer an option to cache documents for offline use, but unfortunately it does not.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For now, CmisSync and Alfresco Desktop Sync are by far the most usable.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 May 2012 08:57:23 GMT nicolasraoul 2012-05-01T08:57:23Z Using Alfresco while offline: My findings https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-alfresco-while-offline-my-findings/m-p/265406#M218536 Hello all,For users who take the plane/train/subway often, WebDAV is not a solution.How to view/edit Alfresco documents when offline, and ensure easy synchronization?I have researched this for a client, and here are my findings:http://aegif-labo.blogspot.jp/2012/04/alfresco-how-to-keep-working-even- Tue, 01 May 2012 08:57:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-alfresco-while-offline-my-findings/m-p/265406#M218536 nicolasraoul 2012-05-01T08:57:23Z Re: Using Alfresco while offline: My findings https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-alfresco-while-offline-my-findings/m-p/265407#M218537 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, Nicholas..</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I tried to download Alfresco Desktop Sync, I don't know whether i've installed it successfully. when i started to use it, i need to have java runtime environment. i've done with that.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Now, i need to login to the alfresco but it always failed and there's a message said "there was an error connecting to Alfresco. Please check your login settings and try again."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i tried to login many times, and always failed <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Please help.</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:01:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-alfresco-while-offline-my-findings/m-p/265407#M218537 taimui0101 2013-03-09T01:01:43Z