A few days ago, I was working on a file (some computer code) on my laptop at home which is synced to my Dropbox. I then opened the same file later on my office computer which is also synced with my Dropbox, but it did not contain the latest changes. This had me very concerned. This particular time I happened to notice the change and have "manually" updated the file, but theoretically Dropbox should have synced and opened the latest version. I am worried such a mistake may have been made previously and also might happen again. I am already rather OCD when it comes to checking the sync status and each time I begin work on a different device always ensure the Dropbox icon in the right bottom corner of my Windows taskbar is fully white indicating syncing is up to date. Similarly, I do the same each time I have finished work on a given device.
I guess there is the possibility that I may be responsible for this somehow by accident, but after reading other forum comments it does seem a real possibility that on occasion Dropbox will fail to sync and that one might open a file which has been updated on a different machine but does not contain the updates. Given that such events, which may be rare, can happen due to unforseen issues (e.g. network connection etc.), I wonder if there is anything that can be done to alert the user e.g. a pop up alert indicating that there is no Internet connection, or Dropbox hasn't yet fully synced, or similar? In addition, I wondered if anybody can share any tips / best practices for file management to safe guard against these kinds of events?
Thank you.
