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1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 02:08:34 EDT Mike Macgirvin
   
   
   

   Charles Roth MPC wrote the following post Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:25:39 +1000

   I am loving using LibreOffice to create and edit documents directly in my hubzilla cloud.
   1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 16:30:05 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Is this in dev?
   2. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 16:32:41 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Oh yeah, I see @Charles Roth MPC is running dev (2.7.4). This is great! I always wanted this!
   3. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 18:36:05 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      I see, we're entering the next level
   4. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 19:04:12 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      That's freakin' awesome!
   5. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 19:22:22 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      I believe the capabilities described have been present for several years and do not depend on any recent changes.
   6. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 19:41:12 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      From 5 months ago:
      
      You can write and edit documents with LibreOffice on your Hubzilla cloud.
      File
      Open Remote File
      
      Add service
      Host: Only your domain name, no https://
      Secure Connection: checked
      Label: a nickname
      Root: /dav/
      
      Then I had to close out of LibreOffice. When I reopened and selected Remote File I was asked for my user and pass for the cloud, and to choose a master password for storing the cloud passwords in LibreOffice.
   7. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 19:55:04 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      I can't imagine how people missed this cool feature since it's so obviously advertised on our project webpage and in the Help pages.
   8. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 20:29:38 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Mea culpa. I will try and get it in the help pages.
   9. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 00:12:23 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      The take home message besides Hubzilla awesomeness for members is WAKE UP to WebDAV possibilities. The WebDAV protocol started in 1996 and has been stable since 2007. WebDAV support was added to Microsoft Office 2000 in 1999 and LibreOffice precursors OpenOffice 2.4 and StarOffice 7 in 2003.
   10. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 02:36:48 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       I thought Charles was talking about editing Libre Office documents inline. But this is of course also a nice feature, although you can of course edit every file in your Hubzilla cloud using Webdav.
   11. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 03:22:29 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       This is creating and editing a document in my hubzilla cloud using only libreoffice. No browser or other software involved no  local copy. With permissions granted, it can be collaborative.
   12. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 07:37:17 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       is there a simple way to mount a WebDAV host to a folder in Linux, without needing to mess around wtih fstab etc? Like sshfs, where you just run sshfs <host> <mountpoint>.
   13. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 08:28:05 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       @It's me yes, sure: davfs
       try to search for davfs in the guide (like /help/member/member_guide#Personal_Cloud_Storage )
   14. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 09:02:55 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       @mrjive thanks :). I did check that guide before and it didn't provide a way to do it directly via command line, however I realised I can use mount -t davfs "https://lastauth.com/dav/hello" /tmp/test which works.
       
       The documentation also needs to be updated. It tells you to use for the DAV url

       https://<hub-url>/dav

         rather than

       https://<hub-url>/dav/<username>

   15. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 12:26:50 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       It seems like this also means a plug-in could be made to connect to Collabora Online, letting you edit your documents in the browser directly from the Hubzilla UI like NextCloud does.
   16. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 16:33:02 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       is there a simple way to mount a WebDAV host to a folder in Linux, without needing to mess around wtih fstab etc?

       
       
       The Gnome file manager (Nautilus) attaches to DAV folders.
       
       davs://server.name/dav
       
       Easy-peasy.
       
       You can add the username and also the password to the server name if you don't want it to ask you.
       
       username@server.name or username:password@server.name
   17. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 20:04:18 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       You could mount a directory in webdav as described above and then use it as encrypted directory via cryfs.
       
       In short for Debian
       
       Install
       
       apt-get install cryfs
           
       Usage
       
       cryfs webdav-sub-dir mountdir
       
       Just copy you files to "mountdir". You can edit them too.
   18. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2017 06:06:10 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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       Thanks @Einer for suggesting CryFS, I've been wanting a way to store encrypted files in the 'cloud', I'm using Veracrypt currently but it's not suitable for 'cloud' storage.