Maybe you are doing nothing wrong. I put a 220 MB file through Dropbox in the beta test. I wonder if the message is wrong and that the problem is a corruption in your database. Try running through the Database Tools: Integrity, Rebuild Indexes, Integrity (ok?), Clean, Compact then put your file up on Dropbox. Tom On 2012-12-18, at 7:06 PM, P Summers-Smith <summerspa@comcast.net> wrote: > > I'm having a problem getting the app to open and download the data to my iPad. > > App installed okay. I already had Dropbox installed. For the longest > time and many trys, when I opened the app and selected the Dropbox > tab, nothing would happen. The instruction menu would remain on the > screen. I finally copied my RM6 database file into the correct APPS > > RootsMagic folder in Dropbox. > > The app would finally recognize the database (67,332 kb). When I > select it, the app tells me to stay on the page until the download is > complete. Then it tries a long time to download it. Every time, I > finally get an error message that says to check my Internet > connection. But my internet connection is fine. I've tried numerous > times, but always wind up with the same error message. > > Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Patricia > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Tom. I ran the tools as you suggested in the order you suggested. It checked out with integrity ok. While I was doing that, my attention was diverted from the iPad and what it was doing (having last received an error message). After seeing everything okay, I copied the database to overwrite the one in Dropbox on my desktop. The unattended RM was still open on the iPad and the RM APP on my iPad had opened the database file. I closed the app and reopened it. RM said the file had been changed and did I want to resync it. I said yes. New problem now. Now I get a different error message: "Error in Loading Files. The operation couldn't be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error - 1001). {"/var.mobile/Applications/FC2B6382-9B0C-4FF6-B50E-D05DB6007CA5/Documents/6_Master8.rmgc"; path = "6_Master8.rmgc";} " ???? What's going on with that? Okay, then when I closed and opened again, it asked me again if I wanted to sync. I said yes and this time it completed the sync process with no problem at all. So, I think everything is good now. A general question though: Is the file that opens on the iPad the same one that's still IN the Dropbox? Or did Dropbox download a COPY to my iPad and that is the file I'm opening? Will the APP only work if I'm within WI-FI access so it can access my dropbox files? Patricia At 04:19 PM 12/18/2012, you wrote: >Maybe you are doing nothing wrong. I put a 220 MB file through >Dropbox in the beta test. I wonder if the message is wrong and that >the problem is a corruption in your database. Try running through >the Database Tools: Integrity, Rebuild Indexes, Integrity (ok?), >Clean, Compact then put your file up on Dropbox. > >Tom