Thanks for checking into this and letting us know. If I’m correct here about how Dropbox works, then does this still pose a risk to putting the TF file in the Dropbox folder on my desktop hard drive? I suppose I could test it with a small file with fake test data, but even if they did not get corrupted over a few days of back-and-forth use, I still would be nervous that it still could get corrupted at some future point, without hearing from you TF folks that it is, in fact, safe to do it. The next time I open my laptop, Dropbox detects that the two files are different, and the file on the hard drive of my laptop is synced so that now it matches the file on the hard drive of my desktop. I make changes (such as adding a new ancestor) and save it to that file in the Dropbox folder on my hard drive.ĭropbox then detects that a change has been made, and syncs my new hard drive file to its server. When I open the file on my desktop, I believe I am opening the file that is on my hard drive. For example, I keep a genealogy database (created with Mac-only genealogy software) in Dropbox, so that I can access it from either my laptop or my desktop. If I understand it (and maybe I don’t), Dropbox only acts like an auto-backup to a file that is in your Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Brendan, I understand what you are saying, but can’t help but wonder if your reply doesn’t reflect a mis-conception of how Dropbox works.
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