network-in-the-cloud-is-that-aOur helpdesk regularly receives questions about iCloud, DropBox, OneDrive, Google Drive and the like.
But PrintCMR doesn't deal with that very well.
Why?
Here you will find answers to all questions!


What exactly is "Cloud Storage"?

The above solutions have their origins in mobile use, where one and the same user wants to be able to exchange between a mobile phone and a PC.
DropBox discovered this system at an early stage, after which many other parties adopted the idea.

The idea is that on a device a locally stored file is mutated, where immediately after saving it to the local drive, the file is uploaded to the internet storage.
As soon as any (other) device wants to access the document, it is first downloaded from the Internet to the local disk, after which the local file is opened.
And afterwards it is neatly placed on the internet again.

These are constant copy actions to and from the internet, which take place in the background.
If you look at the file location of your files, they are often in your "C:\user" folder, where a 100% copy of the Internet is located.


Avoid using PrintCMR in such systems!

PrintCMR is not a document system, but a database. The PrintCMR database contains all layouts and all entered data.
As soon as you jump from field to field in PrintCMR, a physical save action is performed to your hard drive.
PrintCMR can therefore perform a storage per second in busy situations.

Copying to and from the Internet often costs more than this one second.
And that's where things regularly go wrong!
Even before the copy action is ready, the next action is coming up.
This makes the system unreliable and can lead to permanent damage to PrintCMR.

Any program that works with a database is unsuitable for use on the above-mentioned Cloud networks. Your accounting package, for example, will not be suitable for this either.


So what is a good solution?

PrintCMR works with a database.
When used by multiple users, this must be stored on a locally available network drive. The behavior of this disk is exactly the same as the local disk in your computer. However, this is placed centrally on your own server and is shared with multiple users.
This means it is not a cloud drive.
Often such a drive is shared via a new drive letter, such as H:\PrintCMR
Typically, C: and D: are often reserved for the hard drive of the workstation. Higher drive letters are often network drives.


And yet I want to use PrintCMR in more places!

That is possible, but then it will be a completely separate installation.
So your PC at home gets its own PrintCMR and at work too.

Fortunately, you can exchange addresses and documents from PrintCMR with each other via PrintCMR-Mail.
Data can therefore be shared between different PrintCMR users, without having to re-enter everything.