Re: Dropbox

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> writes:
 

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
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db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
 

I have Dropbox on my laptop and my ANdroid phone, but
they are not synchronised. How do I get it to
synch on the phone, with the laptop contents?

 
As far as I know, Dropbox doesn't sync on Android. You can access your
Dropbox files with the app but syncing the whole Dropbox folder to your
phone isn't supported.
 
If that's not what you mean, then what do you mean?

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It does on my Android smartphone.  On my desktop PC, I added a file to
my Dropbox folder.  In under a minute (it was a small text file), it
showed up when using their web client.  I looked on my phone, and the
new file was listed there.

 
Can you see that file in a directory on the phone with a file manager?
If not, it's as I said, Dropbox is not syncing. From the rest of your
post it seems we have a very different view of what sync means. To me it
means all files in all Dropbox directories copied to all synced systems,
which is what Dropbox does on Windows and Linux PCs at least.

Not sure how I could open a file shown in the Dropbox client on Android
to let me edit it if it weren't downloaded.  How do you open a file on a
local device that is still in the cloud?  I wasn't using a web app to
edit the file.  I wasn't taken to some web page to then download or open
the file.