Firefly and Dropbox

[Hans-Dieter Veit]

Hello,

i'm useing Firefly PB with my projectfolder in my Dropbox. Dropbox i use for backup and to share the source between my laptop and desktop computers.
Sometimes i got quite mystrious errors like no compiler popup (=no compile),  compile but not start EXE (no EXE in release folder or EXE is not an valid executable)

Reason: If you change a file, dropbox keep a hidden copy until it sychronised with its server. But if this is slow (for example slow internet connection) and you are fast with recompileation i.e. while debugging, the file is locked until synchroniseation is complete.

Solution: pause Dropbox synchronisation while working with Firefly/PB and reactiveate afterwards.

Im sure this isn't limeted to the PB version of Firefly and and can occur with any other online storage service

Hans

[Klaas Holland]

Hans-Dieter,

Thanks for the info.

Klaas