Forum Discussion
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)...
I'm bumping the thread to see if anyone has any updates on these issues. Having lost a day's work via a OneDrive sync issue, I'm now experimenting with Dropbox. Working on smaller projects, in unshared folders, OneDrive worked fine. But the file I inherited is large (2.5 GB) and in a shared OneDrive folder.
Disabling and re-enabling sync isn't a good option, as I'll surely forget one or the other, defeating the utility by reinserting the possibility of human error. Articulate devs creating a technical solution to how Storyline caches and saves files is what's needed, rather than admonitions to "work locally." But, be that as it may be, I'm curious, as of 2022, which file-sync platforms work (if any) and which ones don't.
I'll start the list by noting the OneDrive doesn't work--at least for large .story files in shared folders. I'm not sure if it works for large files in unshared folders or not, though I may test it. I'm currently testing Dropbox--even though I've read it also has issues.
The issue remains with Storyline and Dropbox but I work with it by pausing sync in Dropbox when I'm using Storyline. If I forget, I'm reminded immediately when I save something and am alerted by Storyline. I've gotten used to it as part of my workflow. Dropbox gives you the option of pausing sync for periods of time (30 min, 1 hour, 24 hours) so if you forget to un-pause, it will happen automatically.
Mary Beth, I also deal with the issue by pausing the Sync function of dropbox while working on storyline and then I turn it back on after closing storyline for the day. That has eliminated the need to save the file under different file names.
