[LegacyUG] Google drive sync vs Dropbox & Legacy

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:12:13 -0700

Title: Google drive sync vs Dropbox & Legacy
I've been loitering on the list for a good while and for a few months now I've been looking for similar posts to my subject above.

I don't want to start a topic/thread about how to run Legacy from your Dropbox or Google folder, I'm more interested in users' experiences as follows.

For a couple of years I persisted with running additional syncing/backup software, Goodsync to be precise, which worked ok, but I became frustrated with it because it wouldn't discriminate between the actual file date or file size; Once the file date changed it backed up despite the file size remaining unchanged.
Thinking that I might move with the times and use the Syncing Cloud services, I moved my Legacy database to my Google Folder, and created a couple of appropriate sub-folders like, C:\Google Drive\Legacy8\Data and C:\Google Drive\Legacy8\Pictures and everything went swimmingly.

Every time I made changes to Legacy, my data was picked up by Google Sync and correctly uploaded.   I could visually verify by checking on the Desktop browser that the files had uploaded, by the file date/time; Ok I'd prefer to see the file size listed but something is better than nothing I guess. I've updated the software when it arrived, and currently use Google Drive version 1.14.6059.0644

Earlier on I'd made the same changes to my Laptop, and kept folder names etc etc the same and could see the files being synced correctly so didn't bother to look further as most of my work is done from the desktop anyway.

Today with time on my hands and after several days of entering new data into Legacy I thought I'd fire up the Laptop and give it a chance to catch up with all the changes.   I saw the files coming down the line so made a cuppa and got diverted elsewhere, but imagine my surprise when I checked the file size for the Cripps8.fdb in C:\Google Drive\Legacy8\Data\ and cross checked my desktop, online and my laptop.
The Cripps8.fdb file hadn't been updated in the data file, although it had been uploaded correctly online; so it wasn't syncing at all !  Before others ask, No I didn't have Legacy running at the same time on both machines.

This file size is nudging slightly over the 39 megs mark, not anywhere near the 10 gigs file limit, so I thought what gives.   
I've spent most of the day searching online for solutions, and there are various posts for trouble syncing large file sizes, but it seems a common problem with Google Drive and most folks think that Dropbox is the way to go.

After that diatribe, what do others think, and have they experienced similar issues with Google and resorted to Dropbox instead ? Is their Dropbox handling similar file sizes ?

I'm not ready to do anything rash just yet as my data is still being uploaded to Google Drive ok and into the correct sub-folders so I still have a good backup, but the laptop is useless at the moment without syncing operating correctly; Or put it another way, I don't trust it any more.



Cheers
Dave Cripps in Tasmania







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