So you need to rethink how to use dropbox. Dropbox syncs a local copy of your files between all your PC's and keeps a copy on the dropbox server. So you would just work off the copy that's in the dropbox folder. What's cool is that you can add your dropbox folders to be listed in my documents \ pictures \ etc... Just right click it and select include in library.
Why use dropbox? Because they have the best API's and many applications natively plug into dropbox that don't plug into other cloud solutions. They also provide superior Apps for IOS, Andriod and other devices.
Another thing is that Dropbox keeps a history of your files so you can roll them back if something bad happens to the current version.
Completely agree with this. I'm not a Dropbox fanboy or anything, in fact I have OneDrive and Google Drive in my taskbar as well, but I just play with those. Dropbox is where I live at the moment.
Dropbox is king IMHO where syncing etc is concerned.
As far as your questions
@mitchellvii, just think of your Dropbox folder on your PC as any other folder, with one caveat. You put stuff in there, but anything you put in there is automatically backed up to the cloud. So you don't keep multiple copies of stuff on your PC in different places, just put the database right in your Dropbox folder. Everything stays local, so even if you don't have Internet, your stuff is all still there.
If you have multiple devices syncing to the same Dropbox account, and you add or modify a file on one of those devices, first the changes get uploaded to Dropbox, then DB pushes the changes out to the rest of your devices.
If it was me I wouldn't do symbolic links for anything with DB, I would just make sure the data that I'm working on is
somewhere in the root Dropbox folder.
I rarely use the built-in "Photos" or "Music" folders on my PC's, instead I've made those folders in DB and use them exclusively.
Also like Kif pointed out, DB is nice because if you DO overwrite some file with changes and then realize OH SNAP THAT WAS BAD AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT, no problem, just log into the DB website with your account info, and there's all your files and folders. Pick the one you just hosed, and you will have the option to restore the version before changes were made to it. I believe it saves all versions for the last 30 days.
One thing that has always bothered me about OneDrive... back when they were named something else (but still owned by Microsoft), I had some... files... of a personal nature in my OneDrive account. Just temporarily stashed there. Absolutely nothing illegal or immoral, or tasteless, but I got an email a day or two later that Microsoft had deleted my files for violating their TOS. I was MAD. I realized then (and MS admitted) that MS is always looking at the contents of your account, and that creeps me out. I'm not saying DB is perfect or anything, but they have come right and said "we don't rummage through our customers' stuff", and I
think they have even made changes with encryption internally, where they couldn't even if they wanted to.
Anyways hope it helps.
