Project vanished into oblivion ?

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So my most important project just vanished from my Dropbox.
But I found a mysterious tempsave file tho, any chance I can use this tempfile to get back my project ?
Any tips would be appreciated thanks

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@Horacio Vilches: You might be able to recover the missing project file by using the Dropbox site.

Here’s how: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/296

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Do not put all your eggs in the same basket…

Use Dropbox if you must, but also save somewhere else. If as advised many a time you copied your project to the local disk to work, and then put a copy in dropBox when you are finished, you would still have the local copy.

And better yet, store a copy on a good old external drive for extra security.

Or use Github or other version control storage rather than DropBox which has never been intended to support development projects.

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Remember clouds are nebulous things…

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amen!

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if you have the temp file from Xojo saving the project, you can rename it to xojo_binary_project extension.
When Xojo saves, it writes project first to a temp file.
Than it exchanges old with new file.

This can fail of course, especially if Dropbox is too quick to sync.

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Danke Chris!

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this is my personal opinion so take it with a large grain of salt.

you have been warned.

save the file(s)/source to your local hard drive (HD or SSD).
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then copy the source to dropbox (or other cloud service)

  • is a step where I would add/update it in git. and use git to replicate it.
    I personally dont trust the cloud services (like dropbox) for my source code. I use cloud services like github/gitlab/bitbucket to host my git code.
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Can we get a big “DO NOT WORK DIRECTLY OUT OF DROPBOX” banner somewhere in Xojo?