# Project vanished into oblivion ? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 26, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148 "2016-12-26T16:09:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Horacio_Vilches)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/1 "2016-12-26T16:09:02Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Dietrich](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tim_dietrich/32/680_2.png) [@Tim\_Dietrich](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tim_Dietrich)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/2 "2016-12-26T16:28:25Z")
@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](https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/296) ---
**Author:** ![Michel\_Bujardet](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/michel_bujardet/32/252_2.png) [@Michel\_Bujardet](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Michel_Bujardet)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/3 "2016-12-26T16:40:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/u/DaveS)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/4 "2016-12-26T16:43:57Z")
Remember clouds are nebulous things… ---
**Author:** ![scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/u/scott_boss)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/5 "2016-12-26T16:55:37Z")
> [@305589:@Dave S](#): > > Remember clouds are nebulous things… amen! ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/christian_schmitz/32/158_2.png) [@Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Christian_Schmitz)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/6 "2016-12-26T17:26:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Horacio_Vilches)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/7 "2016-12-26T18:07:28Z")
Danke Chris! ---
**Author:** ![scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/u/scott_boss)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/8 "2016-12-26T19:08:38Z")
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). \* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Parnell](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tim_parnell/32/161_2.png) [@Tim\_Parnell](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tim_Parnell)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/9 "2016-12-27T02:11:49Z")
Can we get a big “DO NOT WORK DIRECTLY OUT OF DROPBOX” banner somewhere in Xojo? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/project-vanished-into-oblivion/35148/10 "2020-10-29T18:35:32Z")