# Dropbox syncing

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561>\
**Category:** Scenarios\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561 "2009-01-13T14:50:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_wahlee](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mr\_wahlee](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/mr_wahlee)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561/1 "2009-01-13T14:50:16Z")

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Today I’ve been experimenting with putting my DevonThink Pro database (about 350MB) on Dropbox (a front-end for Amazon S3 storage that gives you a local cached version of your files) and using that facility to provide access to my laptop when I’m not in the office. Seems to work OK but I wonder if anyone’s tested DropBox more completely and found issues with it?

I have discovered you can’t have the database open on 2 machines simultaneously (since the database “lock” file is sync’d by DropBox as well!).

Using DTPOffice 2.0 pb1…

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**Author:** ![JRPars](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@JRPars](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/JRPars)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561/2 "2009-01-19T17:07:22Z")

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In general I’ve found Dropbox to be pretty stable software. I use it regularly, but mostly for single files. I have found some problems using it with Scrivener, which stores in packets, i.e., a folder of rtf and other files make up the scriv file. Sometimes, it does not bring across all of the files and I have read posts from others who have had newer files overwritten by older files when syncing similar database packets. I haven’t experienced that, but for now I don’t sync databases with Dropbox.

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**Author:** ![CatOne](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@CatOne](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/CatOne)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561/3 "2009-01-19T19:34:07Z")

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You definitely can’t have the database file open on 2 machines at one time. I could imagine this creating a real mess.

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**Author:** ![system](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/4/4e6ff70c96be2eb307a274d890bba8d71ba671b3.png) [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dropbox-syncing/6561/4 "2022-01-21T11:03:19Z")

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