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Storyline Files & Dropbox
We (faculty district-wide) are having issues with saving Storyline files to Dropbox. This has not been an issue for the last year but within the last month (not this last update but the one before)...
Hello Lauren, this issue persists regardless how, when and where the file is named. Storyline is notorious about maintaining an ironfist control over the .story files. For example, if you are working on a project, and simply attempt to copy and paste that file to a separate location, Storyline will not allow it.
It seems to me what is happening is Storyline is trying to maintain control of the file, meanwhile dropbox is trying to sync that file to the cloud. So when we try to save at any point, storyline gets confused, because another program has interacted with the file to sync. This triggers Storyline to duplicate the file. But in making a duplicate, dropbox also tries to sync the new duplicated file, which further confuses storyline.
Like many dropbox users, our local drives are one in the same with our dropbox directory. We don't differentiate between what is on the cloud and what is saved locally.
I hope this all makes sense.
