Needing Advice: A Place to Store Word/Pages Documents

[red_satin_doll]

My sweetie is not too fond of the idea of me creating and storing Pages docs (the Mac version of Word) on her laptop, now our only computer; she's worried about it filling up etc. (I love that woman, oh how I do, but....ever seen the scene in the movie The Kids Are Alright re: "micromanaging"? That's pretty much us

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[hobbituk]

I remain suspicious about having everything online only...

Why don't you just get an external drive and save everything there? It won't impact on the laptop as you just unplug it! And the bonus is that if you get another computer there will be no having to move stuff around.

[red_satin_doll]

I have thought about that - my budget is meager right now but my sweetie bought new La Cie portable one and I think they can be had for under $50? (So either - save my pennies or - Christmas is right around the corner *shifty eyes*)

[rahirah]

Yeah, you can get a thumb drive with several gigs of space for tiny amounts of money these days. That's more than enough for novels worth of text documents.

[red_satin_doll]

I definitely agree with readerjane's comment downthread. I think thumb drives are handy for getting files from one 'puter to another temporarily (or where ever I want them to end up) but not for storage per se. I had one that I'd barely used and it died on me the way floppies used to (this was way before the apt fire btw); it just stopped working. I suspect they're rather delicate. but if you've had good luck with them, and know a good brand to get, by all means point the way!

ETA: it's also possible that I'm slightly paranoid.

[beer_good_foamy]

Same here. (Either that, or I just use gmail to mail stuff to myself.)

[infinitewhale]

(Either that, or I just use gmail to mail stuff to myself.)

This is what I do.

[red_satin_doll]

I just remembered that's what my former writing partner and I used to do, emailing each other back and forth across the country with our drafts. (When we weren't just goofing off writing emails to make each other laugh 99% of the time.)

[baudown]

Ok, I am technologically delayed, so when I tell you that iCloud is completely manageable, I mean it. I'm probably repeating what comlodge explained, BUT: when you are getting ready to save a document, click on file, hit the option key (and keep pressing option -- don't stop), and it will say "save as." Click on "save as" while continuing to hold the option key. The screen that comes up asks where you want the document saved. Click iCloud. That's it.

[red_satin_doll]

I've tried your instructions a few times (thanks muchly!) I'm not finding an option for iCloud (perhaps its because this computer was purchased in '09 or so and has an older operating system?) There's iWeb but that's set up for blog posts and such. (Admittedly a good option.)

Maybe I need to google this or call the apple store?

[baudown]

If this is an '09 Mac, this may have something to do with your operating system. You may need to update it. I'd try apple support, because icloud is worth it.

[red_satin_doll]

Duly noted! I'll give it a try, thank you. (I have to be careful with what I download or change on the laptop because it's not mine, it's my sweetie's, which I use by-her-leave.)

[velvetwhip]

I use Google Drive and it's nifty!

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

I just tried to download a pages doc (I'd saved as first to the harddrive just in case) and when I try to upload into a folder in Google docs I get a lost connection to server message. given that I'm still online I have no idea how that's even possible. (*pouts*)

[velvetwhip]

You need to c/p it into a Google doc. I had the same trouble with Word docs until I figured that out.

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

c/p? (Assume I'm the village idiot, sweetie. 'cause I am.)

[eilowyn]

Google Drive sounds like what you need. Now I'm going to go save my own stuff. Thanks for reminding me!

[red_satin_doll]

I just gave it a go and saved my first doc on it - now I'll play with Dropbox. Never hurts to have it in a lot of places...