I would like to try it from iCloud but the one time I downloaded it to the iPad I have no idea where the file went so I can’t open it…Since DropBox worked (after I figured it out) I haven’t tried to figure out the Apple download. That’s for another day.
John > On Jun 29, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Sandy Price <scjpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 >> <mailto:MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/>> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/ >> <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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