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    How To: Access Google Docs using Dolphin via WebDAV

    In my never-ending quest for eliminating local storage, I stumbled across this handy little utility: DAV-pocket. It's a WebDAV server that can access Google Docs -- and it supports bi-directional transfer. This is pretty handy, especially since Dolphin understands webdav:// URLs.

    At its most basic, you can create an entry in Dolphin's Places panel with this URL
    Code:
    webdav://dav-pocket.appspot.com/docs/
    You'll be asked for your Google ID and password. Eventually your docs and folders will appear. Left-clicking to open is broken; you need to right-click, choose Open With, and enter or select the program.

    I found that after a while, authentication was failing. I'm not sure whether Google counts the number of logins and limits them to X per hour or something. DAV-pocket provides an OAuth service, in which you create an account at DAV-pocket and then grant it access to your Google account. I did that, and authentication problems went away. The WebDAV URL for this is a bit different:
    Code:
    webdav://dav-pocket.appspot.com/docso
    Another advantage you get by going through their OAuth service is the ability to enable or disable certain file conversion types.

    I've encountered a number of idiosyncrasies as I test editing and saving files with Kate and Calligra Words, but none of them seem all that insurmoutable. I'm still trying to figure whether allowing Google to convert is a good idea; some formatting appears to change, but converted docs don't count against your 1 MB limit -- you can store an infinte number of files in Google's formats.

    One thing I've noticed: Google's native format for docs appears to be Word!

    Anyway...enjoy, and if you notice anything curious in your own explorations, let us know here.

    #2
    Well you are my new hero. Just deleted a bunch of stuff that I was too lazy to do via the web interface. Thanks!

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