Hi Stephen, I find that Dropbox gives plenty of feedback on what it is doing all the below is what I see in SL and assumes you are connected to the net at the time:
When all is up to date and in synch, the menu bar icon has a green tick and all the files/folders in the Dropbox folder show a green tick on their icon (viewed in finder). When you add a new file, or update an existing file, the green tick on the menubar icon changes to a rotating blue wheel as does the tick on the finder icon for the file and all enclosing folders. If you change/add a bunch of files in one go or if you have been unconnected for a while when changes have been made it can take awhile for the synch to complete (depends on your internet UPLOAD speed). If, at any point, you want to check you can click on the menubar icon and a dropdown menu says things like: * All files up to date or * Uploading 1 file (or x files) It will also show you recently changed files. One thing to remember if, like me, you generally work on a desktop and occasionally use a laptop when out & about (with dropbox keeping them in synch) if you have had the laptop switched off for a while and done a bit of work on the desktop there will be a bit of catching up to do so make sure you allow time to fire-up the laptop & let it synch before you rush out the door ;o) HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 31/3/13 6:30 PM, Stephen Chape at chap...@bigpond.com wrote: > Thank you Neil, > There must be a time lag then. > I checked an Excel file that I adjusted this afternoon and the changes were > NOT reflected about 5 minutes later. > I will keep an eye on it in future ! > > On 31/03/2013, at 5:54 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > >> Re: Dropbox ! >> Hi Stephen, >> >> My experience is that everything that is in the ³dropbox² folder on your >> computer is indeed automatically uploaded to your dropbox online storage. >> >> Not only that but if you open your dropbox account in a browser you can see >> each version that has been uploaded as you change/edit them and (if you stuff >> something up) you can even restore to earlier versions of the file. >> >> It goes without saying, of course, that it can only upload, check which >> versions are current, synch etc while you are actually online and connected >> to the internet ;o) >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> Neil
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