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User manual: Add section on dive log storage in the cloud using dropbox

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Some other dive log programs present storage of dive logs on the Internet
as an important feature. Therefore this text.
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Export to other formats can be achieved through third party facilities, for
instance _www.divelogs.de_.
[[S_Cloud_access]]
== _Subsurface_ in the Cloud
For each diver, dive log information is highly important. Not only is it a record
of diving activities for one's own pleasure, but it is important information required
for admission to further training courses or (sometimes) even diving sites. The
security of the dive log is therefore critical. In order to have a dive log that is
resistant to failure of a home computer hard drive, loss or theft of equipment, the
Cloud is an obvious solution. This also has the added benefit that one can access one's dive
log from anywhere in the world without having to carry it with oneself. For this
reason, facilities such as _divelogs.de_ and _Diving Log_ offer facilities to store
dive log information on the Internet. Although _Subsurface_ does not offer integrated
Cloud storage of dive logs, it is simple to achieve this using several of the
existing facilities on the Internet.
For instance
http://www.dropbox.com/[_Dropbox_]
offers a free application that allows
files on the Dropbox servers to be seen as a local folder on one's desktop computer.
image::images/Cloud.jpg["FIGURE: Dropbox folder",align="center"]
Currently there are not costs involved for this service. In this
case, one can store one's dive log on _Dropbox_ in a totally seamless way: a dive log in
one's _Dropbox_ folder can be opened and saved directly by _Subsurface_ and it can
be accessed from any place with Internet access. Dropbox (Windows, Mac
and Linux) can be installed by accessing the
http://www.dropbox.com/install[_Install Page on the Dropbox website_]
. Alternatively one can use _Dropbox_ as a mechanism to backup one's dive log. To
Store a dive log in the Cloud, select _File->Save as_ from the _Subsurface_ main menu,
navigate to the _Dropbox_ folder and select the _Save_ button. To access the dive log
in the Cloud, select _File->Open Logbook_ from the _Subsurface_
main menu and navigate to the dive log file in the _Dropbox_ folder and select the
_Open_ button.
[[S_PrintDivelog]]
== Printing a dive log