Stupid simple version control using dropbox

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Feb 9 11:40:39 EST 2014


Actually you were partly right.  The free account will save versions for only 30 days.  After that older versions roll off.  The paid accounts keep all versions forever.  

On February 8, 2014 7:54:59 PM CST, Paul Hibbert <paulhibbert at mac.com> wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Thank you for sharing that, I looked all over for this when I heard
>about it, but when I saw the add on in the price structure I stopped
>looking. 
>
>I guess Dropbox has one thing in common with LiveCode then -
>occasionally lacking in documentation!
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Paul
>
>On 2014-02-08, at 4:57 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
>
>> Paul, Howard-
>> 
>> Saturday, February 8, 2014, 3:07:28 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> You need a Business account or a Pro account with add ons for
>version history.
>> 
>> Not necessary.
>> 
>>> On 2014-02-07, at 12:36 PM, Howard Bornstein
><bornstein at designeq.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> However, I don't see the stack versioning you describe in any of my
>stack
>>>> files on Dropbox. Is there something specific one needs to do in
>order to
>>>> invoke this characteristic of Dropbox?
>> 
>> (the description below is for linux, I assume other OSs are similar)
>> 
>> Right-click on the Dropbox icon in the tray
>> Select Launch Dropbox website
>> Find the file you're interested in
>> Right-click the file for the contextual menu
>> Select Previous versions
>> From the list that appears, select one checkbox
>>  (ignore the fact that the checkbox looks like a radio button)
>> Click the Restore button
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
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