with the Dropbox cloud, do you find yourself having switch the folder to Online Only a lot? Mine seems to bounce back to local and then I have to click online only again
Thanks for bringing this up bro! I don't use the online/offline feature of dropbox! that's pretty new! Just turn it off, I find it to be smoother and it kinda defeats the point of having seamless sync if you have to keep manually downloading everything! Hope this helps bro!
I avoid collecting all because then you make duplicates of your samples and drum kits. Which just takes up space over time. If you’re just syncing project files and samples that you made in the project then you’re good to go. I also don’t want to be unzipping projects between machines. I want to be able to make changes, save and they update on all my devices
@@JONTHEDREAMER Yeah, I saved a mock project in DropBox after syncing. When I downloaded the project and reopened it, the samples were missing. So only the project itself was save, but not the elements in it. Is there an extra step you took to prevent this? Thank you for your response, btw.
@@jewelthompson4210 it all depends on how your projects are setup I guess. I keep all my drum kits in a central location on all devices. So when I open a project on another computer of mine I expect the samples to be missing so I just scan locally and reconnect . Watch my drum kits video and that will outline how I keep my samples and that might help
Just found your channel - great stuff. For me, the worry about Dropbox is not the ability to save files, but the ability to open / run projects (with audio) from the Dropbox folder. In this video, you indicate that your audio (drum kits) actually lives outside of Dropbox for you, for which you have a different backup plan. That’s not a small point, surely. I wonder if you would actually have performance issues if you tried to read audio from Dropbox while working in an Ableton project? (Put another way - does Dropbox have some kind of local cached storage that would make this work?) If I was confident there would be no issue, I would try it for production...
immichaelyoung Thanks. Any audio that I render and is saved in the project file folder does get saved to the Dropbox cloud and you can read those files and download them on a different system and they would be fine. As for reading files from Dropbox within ableton, I think it’s possible through the desktop but not directly inside ableton. They have something called Dropbox cloud which allows that - but that’s less of a back up issues and more of a read files issue to save space hd space I’m assuming.
with the Dropbox cloud, do you find yourself having switch the folder to Online Only a lot? Mine seems to bounce back to local and then I have to click online only again
Thanks for bringing this up bro! I don't use the online/offline feature of dropbox! that's pretty new! Just turn it off, I find it to be smoother and it kinda defeats the point of having seamless sync if you have to keep manually downloading everything! Hope this helps bro!
Gems bro!!
All good man!
Good video thanks for sharing
Don't you have to collect all & save & zip the folder first and then add it into the DropBox folder?
I avoid collecting all because then you make duplicates of your samples and drum kits. Which just takes up space over time. If you’re just syncing project files and samples that you made in the project then you’re good to go.
I also don’t want to be unzipping projects between machines. I want to be able to make changes, save and they update on all my devices
@@JONTHEDREAMER Yeah, I saved a mock project in DropBox after syncing. When I downloaded the project and reopened it, the samples were missing. So only the project itself was save, but not the elements in it. Is there an extra step you took to prevent this? Thank you for your response, btw.
@@jewelthompson4210 it all depends on how your projects are setup I guess. I keep all my drum kits in a central location on all devices. So when I open a project on another computer of mine I expect the samples to be missing so I just scan locally and reconnect . Watch my drum kits video and that will outline how I keep my samples and that might help
Just found your channel - great stuff. For me, the worry about Dropbox is not the ability to save files, but the ability to open / run projects (with audio) from the Dropbox folder. In this video, you indicate that your audio (drum kits) actually lives outside of Dropbox for you, for which you have a different backup plan. That’s not a small point, surely. I wonder if you would actually have performance issues if you tried to read audio from Dropbox while working in an Ableton project? (Put another way - does Dropbox have some kind of local cached storage that would make this work?) If I was confident there would be no issue, I would try it for production...
immichaelyoung Thanks. Any audio that I render and is saved in the project file folder does get saved to the Dropbox cloud and you can read those files and download them on a different system and they would be fine. As for reading files from Dropbox within ableton, I think it’s possible through the desktop but not directly inside ableton. They have something called Dropbox cloud which allows that - but that’s less of a back up issues and more of a read files issue to save space hd space I’m assuming.
I could've used this like two weeks ago my external hardrive stopped working 😩
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