Roxanne - I wonder if you set Legacy to open the family files on your desktop rather than the files in Dropbox. Dropbox only "knows" the files in it's folders. It can't update files it knows nothing about.
1. In my Dropbox Folder on my C drive, I created a folder named Legacy. Then I moved my current Legacy Family Files to the Dropbox folder named Legacy. 2. In Legacy go to Options in the upper toolbar>Customize>locations> Default location of family Files. 3. click Change & Search for this created Legacy folder inside the Dropbox folder on your hard-drive. Mine is: c:\Users\name\Dropbox\Legacy 4. You will need to do this for each computer that you want to sync. Hint: "Windows Key + E" will open your Explorer so that you can find your Dropbox folder - if you don't already know it's location. By all means keep backups, rather than active Legacy files, in another location on your hard drive or external hard drive or thumb drive. Ana On 11/30/2011 12:29 AM, Roxanne wrote: > I don't think I have a question so much as a caution. I had my Legacy > files on my Desktop, and also on Dropbox. I'd check every now and then > to see if the files were actually updating like they were supposed to. > For some reason, my files on Dropbox were updates from a year ago. I > copied and pasted my current Legacy files into Dropbox, but still, > they wouldn't show anything past a year ago. It's a good thing I > checked before uninstalling Dropbox, because my current files had > reverted back to their year-ago status. I'm fortunate that I haven't > done much work on my files in the past year. Otherwise, I'd be highly > annoyed. I don't know what the problem may have been, but I'm going > back to backing up on my flash drive, as well as emailing a zip file > with my updates once a month. > > Roxanne Wolfe Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
