Hello Cathy,
Monday, March 31, 2014, 4:45:41 PM, you wrote: > Hi Dave, > Writing privately as I'm not sure why you want to know. Perhaps you > can clarify. As my previous posts have suggested Google Sync appears to have some issues syncing when the file sizes get bigger, and as this appears to be an issue of mine I thought I'd pose the question and see what others are experiencing, especially those folks using Dropbox. > In my Dropbox folder I don't have any .fdb files except those in the > Legacy backup zips. > My main file has a zip size at the moment of 12,675 KB Ok, that is bigger than my datafile all zipped up (7.6 megs), so that is interesting, although I don't backup my zip files to the cloud, only the media files and the data files that change. My datafile may only be 7.6 megs zipped up, but the media stuff compressed is a zip file over 1 gig, so too big to consider on my slower transfer speeds. > I have Dropbox\Legacy Backup > Dropbox\Legacy Pictures with numerous sub-folders. > Currently together they are around 550 MB > That's because I have small sized pics. > I'm in the process of removing a lot of pics and adding a slightly > larger sized pic. Years ago I was using Legacy galleries as a means > of sorting family pics. Now I'm finding Picasa face recognition > section is doing this job so I'm rethinking why I'm adding extra pics > to Legacy. I added "screen-sized" pics so that they'd look OK on a > slider show. Now screens are much, much larger. So your Dropbox\Legacy Backup suggests to me you are manually creating the zip file yourself then letting Dropbox handle the upload to the cloud ? This isn't my preferred choice, since I want to run Legacy completely from my Local Cloud folders on my desktop, then let Google or Dropbox do everything in the background. > I haven't thought of shifting to Google Drive for this. I've started > using Google to fire proof my digital photos at the size where they > don't count against your size allowance. At least that's the theory. All my files are getting handled correctly by Google, in that they're getting uploaded to the cloud, just that some of them aren't syncing at all when I want to use the Laptop; Particularly the large *.fdb file. > Cathy > rejoicing in a cooler day in Perth, Western Australia. We've even had > a shower of rain. > Sometimes I think we should move to Tasmania. Yes, winter is around the corner for us, so we're kinda looking forward to the colder stuff to come. Most people won't credit that little old Tasmania at the bottom of the world does get really high temperatures in the peak of summer, and we do get days where it's 42 degrees Celsius and weeks of the high 30s. Thanks for the posting Dave -- David Cripps, Tasmania <[email protected]> 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
