BRUCE: There is a serious problem with Dropbox in RM 7.04.0. I have been using Dropbox as the place where I store both my data files and my backup files. RM IS NOT PICKING UP THE DATA FILE THAT IS IN DROPBOX. And, yes, I have designated the proper Dropbox folder in Tools/Program Options/Folders. I've been doing some heavy updates of my RM database, including being meticulous about entering sources and associating documentary media with each fact. But for the past two weeks I've been kicking myself about the "errors" I've been making. These errors have been most apparent in the media attachments. I keep finding records that have no media attached even though I could swear I had entered them. I attributed these errors to my advancing age and "senior moments". Pat McGrath's message today got me thinking that maybe it's not me. 1. So, this morning, before opening RM, I checked the dates stamps on my Dropbox data and backup files. They showed the correct times that I did my backup last night and when I closed RM. 2. When I opened RM this morning, I checked on the work I had done last night. NONE of the changes I had made last night were there. I had saved my notes about the work I did, so I was fairly certain that the missing entries had been made, but like Pat I found all the work I had done was missing. 3. I restored my backup from Dropbox and all the missing entries were in the restored file. In a way, I was relieved. The problem is not my senior moments. It is RM. RM's Backup is working properly, but RM is not picking up the proper data file from Dropbox. This is a serious problem. I've wasted dozens of hours re-inputting data that already had been input. And, who knows how much data people have lost because they assumed RM was working properly and didn't do a backup restore before entering more data. BRUCE: THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS AN URGENT FIX! Best, Ron Ron Doctor ([1][email protected]) Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP/Jewish Records Indexing-Poland [2]http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets Portland, Oregon USA and Board Member and Past Coordinator JewishGen Ukraine Special Interest Group (Ukraine SIG) Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all from Kremenet s, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all from Kiev, Uman, Odessa On 2/28/2015 10:24 AM, [3][email protected] wrote: Message: 4 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:27:41 -0500 From: "Pat McGrath" [4]<[email protected]> Subject: [RMagic] Backup/restore database DIFFERENT than MOST RECENT -- Bruce???? To: "'RootsMagic Users List '" [5]<[email protected]> Message-ID: [6]<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I always do backup when I finish working and then restore when I begin again to be SURE I am in the latest database!!! I only use ONE database for all my folks. So when I finished working last night I backed up (to Dropbox as usual to be accessible from anywhere). A few minutes ago I just wanted to LOOK AT a person for something else I was doing on the same computer so I didn't do a restore, just open the RECENT database !!!!! I noticed when I went to create the pedigree chart (same thing I had done last night) that the title was an OLD TITLE and not the one I had created last night!!!! Did some further checking and found that work I had done last night WAS NOT IN MOST RECENT ... Must admit I am confused and concerned!!!! Rarely do I use MOST RECENT but occasionally when I know for SURE I was working on the same computer just a bit ago 'assuming' that would be the snapshot/my most recent database .. appears that is NOT the case. Please clarify and let me know what I am doing wrong! Obviously if I have lost data there is no way of figuring that out now!!!! Pat References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected]