How to integrate Dropbox and Dropbox for s mode

Let's not go into how this worked (because I don't know), but I have just been able to open my DropBox files in File Manager.  Now I am able to go into the folder, copy the files I want, and move them into the only folder that the iPad Songbook seems to recognize.  Then I will be able to delete the other folders that I created in trying to solve the problem.  Finally I will have "One Songbook file to rule them all".    Now that I can access them in File Manager, I know how to - well - manage the files, so I hope it will be smooth sailing from here on.

Thank you so much for your help and your patience. I will rank you sky high in terms of helping!

Mary Lou

Glad to have assisted you, boudreauml!

Enjoy your week! :relieved:

I have identified another issue, Jay.  Dropbox is not syncing with Songbook, my song words and chords program.  I thought it must be Songbook, and have been working with the developer of the program to try to identify what is going wrong.  I gave him access to my Dropbox file, and he was able to sync it to Songbook on his computer.  He thinks there is something wrong with the "Dropbox sync on my Windows PC, which is not related to SongBook, because the sync is handled by the Dropbox app. Maybe you need to restart it, or restart your PC or something".   I have turned off the computer and restarted it, and that didn't do anything. 

Is there something I have to do to make the sync work on my Dropbox? Could I have turned something off in my previous awkward attempts to move folders around (before you solved that problem with file manager.)  Any ideas?

Thanks Jay

Can you see the Dropbox icon in the system tray near the clock? Is it white, or showing a blue syncing icon?

If it isn't showing that color, or isn't there at all, then there's a conection issue, or the app isn't running, meaning the files aren't syncing.

Okay, I see it.  It is black.  When I click on it, it indicates me the second last time I shared a folder (4 months ago), but not when I shared one on Sunday.

So I guess it is not running or is not syncing.  How do we fix that, please?

If it's black, that means the app has no connection to the internet, or it isn't signed into an account.

If you click the app, what message does it say on the bottom left?

Here's a screen shot.  What do I do now, please?

Mary Lou

This is the Dropbox desktop application file navigator, and isn't what you see when you single click the Dropbox icon near the clock on the bottom right.

Since it looks like the Songbook is a shared folder, what happens if you add files in there?

When I put song files into Dropbox now, the show up in file manager but do not show up in Songbook.  I don't think that the people I have shared with are using it to do much except download the songs to their own file.

As I'm not familiar in how Songbook works, there isn't much else I can suggest from our end.

It looks like the Dropbox app is synced, so it could be that the files are not in the folder or area that Songbook is searching for the files.

I'd recommend checking with them once more, just to ensure their app is setup correctly.

I have checked settings on Songbook and it lists the name of the correct file in Dropbox\Songbook.

How can you tell if Dropbox is syncing?  I thought you said that the Dropbox app should be white of yellow?  It is black.  It really is behaving as if there is no link between Dropbox and Songbook. Can you think of anything else that I can try?

Thanks.

Do the files appear on your account in the Dropbox site here when you navigate to the Songbook folder?

I have made some changes to the files through my Dropbox file manager, deleting files without titles to clean up the list.  These changes are not visible on the Dropbox internet site that you directed me to.  The old files are still there.

It appears that the files are in both the folder on the online Dropbox and in my folder that I see in File Manager on my computer.  They do not seem to be connected.  Changes made in the folder the I see in File Manager are not reflected in the folder on Dropbox.