I don't know how to fix it, but it sure sounds like a Dropbox for iPad caching issue. I had a similar issue with Evernote, although I don't require my notes to be updated that quickly so I didn't investigate how to overcome the caching issue.
On Jun 29, 2016, at 5:40 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@me.com> wrote: > I’ll share this but more than likely there won’t be another person in our > Solar System that finds this problem…but just in case. > > Jonathan Fletcher has built a Filemaker program for me, a stand alone and not > on a server, which would solve this problem but for now it’s an individual > file on whatever machine I am on. > > Each day when the market closes I download the data I need, import into > Filemaker and then back the file up to iCloud and Dropbox. > > If I do this while at the office I can then retrieve the file on the Mac at > home, the Laptop wherever I go or the iPadPro… > > Everything works as normal until it comes to the iPad, then the maze kicks in. > > Forever I would go to Dropbox and download the new file to the iPad…but it > was not the updated file, it was from the previous day???? Why? I worked > and worked with this and finally found a solution. > > So if you ever have this problem in moving a file from Dropbox to and iPad > here is the solution I have found. > > First I have to delete the file from Dropbox on whatever machine I am > working….AND YOU MUST then empty the trash…took me a long while to figure > this one out but emptying the trash is a MUST. > > Second you need to delete the previous file from the iPad…maybe it would keep > both but I could never get consistency by keeping both. > > Now that there is no file on the iPad and the one in Dropbox was a clean > download rather than replacing the old file I open the iPad and there is the > file listed in the Dropbox list of files….CAN'T download that one, for some > reason it’s still yesterday’s data. > > I have to go into the Dropbox search box and type in the first three letters > of my file, and there it is..touch that file and it downloads… > > Once downloaded hit the icon to decide what to do with the file, click on > “Open In” and choose Filemaker…once it starts to load the dialogue says there > is another file, (but there isn’t, it’s been deleted) do I want to keep both > or replace…Replace… > > This works every time, I bet it’s taken me two weeks to figure all this out, > it’s amazing the steps so I thought I would let you all know… > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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