I collect jokes that I find amusing and keep them in a project named ‘Funny’ which I sync between iMac and iphone. Once a week, for about an hour of an evening almost every week I go to the pub with friends and, in between conversations, test whether they share my humour by getting out my phone and reading out jokes I’ve added to the project. Last weekend having added some more jokes to the project on Scrivener Mac OS, I was looking forward to sharing them on Monday evening. Online in the pub is hit-and-miss, the signal is awful so I performed a sync earlier on in readiness. In the pub, when I opened the project, I was disappointed to discover that the new jokes were not in the project. Strange.
Next morning on my iMac, I glanced up at the menu bar to see the familiar Dropbox icon. but it wasn’t there. ???. Searching Dropbox help, I discovered that in October 2019 Dropbox made some changes that include not showing the menu bar icon unless the Dropbox desktop app is open. Having accommodated the Dropbox desktop app start up at login only to find it a nuisance popping up randomly I had removed it from dock and not noticed the menu bar icon had gone.
Now that I know to keep the Dropbox application open, the icon is where it should be so I can keep an eye on it syncing. I have a feeling though that, were it not for my sharing my humour, then very possibility I would’ve have assumed sync Scrivener projects between devices was working normally.
o/b joke.
During a discussion about something important, my wife and I had words. But I didn’t get to use mine.