03-02-2025, 01:40 PM
I see that a change was made in the latest version of MSP to always assume the most recent file location for the backup file. May I complain?
I always do a local file backup, and then immediately after a backup in a Dropbox folder I've called Mobile Sheets Backups. My memory is not so good, but this used to be easy. I think I was always offered file locations of local or Dropbox, and if I chose dropbox, the location I wanted came up. Now I just get the local file offered, and if I click the folder icon to choose something else, I get a bunch of options, but I don't recognize any of them. Well, it does show my previous backup, not in a folder (well, called "Root - storage -emulated - 0"). I don't know what that means, but if I click Root, like I do when I change the location from which I want to download a file from a Dropbox folder, it says I don't have access. If I select the existing file from January, which is not the local backup I just did today on March 1, I see that the one in Dropbox was not updated, so I don't know what that I supposedly updated was. That one after the update when I said ok to replace it, still shows the January date.
I don't seem to be getting any option to save the backup where I used to save it, in my folder for external backups that I created on Dropbox. I want a backup there in case I lose my tablet and from which to update the the most recent backup to my phone.
Am I not understanding something, or have I lost the ability to do an external backup, or to do it where I want to do it?
It's sort-of beside the point that I never want to save the backup where I just saved it, as I always save to a local then an external file.
Thanks for any help here.
I always do a local file backup, and then immediately after a backup in a Dropbox folder I've called Mobile Sheets Backups. My memory is not so good, but this used to be easy. I think I was always offered file locations of local or Dropbox, and if I chose dropbox, the location I wanted came up. Now I just get the local file offered, and if I click the folder icon to choose something else, I get a bunch of options, but I don't recognize any of them. Well, it does show my previous backup, not in a folder (well, called "Root - storage -emulated - 0"). I don't know what that means, but if I click Root, like I do when I change the location from which I want to download a file from a Dropbox folder, it says I don't have access. If I select the existing file from January, which is not the local backup I just did today on March 1, I see that the one in Dropbox was not updated, so I don't know what that I supposedly updated was. That one after the update when I said ok to replace it, still shows the January date.
I don't seem to be getting any option to save the backup where I used to save it, in my folder for external backups that I created on Dropbox. I want a backup there in case I lose my tablet and from which to update the the most recent backup to my phone.
Am I not understanding something, or have I lost the ability to do an external backup, or to do it where I want to do it?
It's sort-of beside the point that I never want to save the backup where I just saved it, as I always save to a local then an external file.
Thanks for any help here.
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Wendy Cutler
Wendy Cutler