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audt
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Had Dropbox on 2 laptops, primary one crashed but files on secondary aren't up to date.

Hi, I have Dropbox and was saving my work with Scrivener to it. My laptop crashed so I had to switch to a backup laptop I have that's a little older. The backup only seems to have versions from 2023 ...
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Mark
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5 months ago

Are the files up to date online at www.dropbox.com/home ? 

 

What is www.dropbox.com/events showing?

 

Dropbox will sync and keep things up to date as long as it is running on the machine, you save in to the Dropbox folder and you have enough quota left to do so. 

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