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I have two PC's at home. One XP the other Windows 7-64bit. I have a word document that I edit on either PC - to enable this I have the file stored in a Dropbox folder. This usually works fine - but sometimes I find that the file does not get updated on my windows7 PC. I.e. I edit the file on my Windows XP machine, then go to my Windows 7 PC and see that there is a previous, old, datestamp on the file and sure enough if I open up the file to have a look, I see that the latest edits are not included. If I right-click on the file and select "Browse on Dropbox website" I see that the latest file is correctly there. Surely there must be some option to say please update this file - but can find no such thing. Has something gone wrong?
I should point out that my wireless internet connection is a little intermittent - could this have caused some glitch?
By the way I do not leave the old file open in word on my Windows-7 PC as I can well imagine that would cause trouble.
Also I should mention that the icon on the document has the little green tick on it showing that Dropbox is not in the process of doing a transfer. Also the Dropbox icon in my system tray also has the green tick - so Dropbox is not busy transferring some other file(s). If I hover the mouse over the Dropbox icon I get the tooltip "All files up to date".
1Do you have the latest version of DropBox installed? There was a bump from 0.7 to 1.2 recently which I had to upgrade manually. That could be the reason (though I am guessing). – None – 2011-03-19T20:15:17.930
I read that dropbox will upgrade itself in due course - maybe this problem will not happen again - we'll see. – Mick – 2011-03-23T01:14:12.357
1You may have read that, but my experience is different in that I had to manually upgrade it. – None – 2011-03-23T17:28:53.967
A workaround may be to right-click Dropbox icon and click Pause syncing, then resume it the same way. Dropbox will reindex files on resume and maybe will download the most recet version. – gronostaj – 2013-03-19T12:22:25.737