Hello

Does anyone experience using a Delphi application with EDB database on
Dropbox?
I try it. I move one of my application and I succeed doing some updates but
it's very unstable.

Does anybody know if it's suppose to work and does it require specials
settings?

Thanks Sorin

Sorin H wrote:

> Does anyone experience using a Delphi application with EDB database
> on Dropbox?  I try it. I move one of my application and I succeed
> doing some updates but it's very unstable.
>
> Does anybody know if it's suppose to work and does it require
> specials settings?

What are you expecting to happen? It strikes me as something that would
never work well if your intention is to share it among computers for
actual access. For backing up, perhaps, but there are much better ways.
Any database code will depend on operating system locks on the files.
Dropbox will not be respecting that and will send updates to another
computer in any order. You would be bound to end up with conflicts and
lost data.

If you want to use it for backups, set the dropbox folder as the
location for backups, and get EDB to do a backup to it.

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Matthew Jones

Sorin,

<< Does anyone experience using a Delphi application with EDB database on Dropbox? >>

You shouldn't try to access an ElevateDB database (or any database, for that matter) on Dropbox.  It's not designed to work that way, and you're just going to end up corrupting/losing the data, eventually.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Thanks for the information

I was surprise when one of my clients complain about problems on one of my
programs
and I discover that he was working from Dropbox.
He work like this for some time and he said that the programs work quite
well from 2 laptops and that's why I decided to inquire about that.

Ok I'll move him back to one computer. It's a pity it doesn't work. It could
be quite useful.

Thanks Sorin


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Sorin,

<< Does anyone experience using a Delphi application with EDB database on
Dropbox? >>

You shouldn't try to access an ElevateDB database (or any database, for that
matter) on Dropbox.  It's not designed to work that way, and you're just
going to end up corrupting/losing the data, eventually.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com