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No. The syncing features of Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and others are dangerous to the FrameReady files. When you are using FrameReady, those files are open and subject to many changes as you use the program.
Do not put Frameready into such folders; the files can become corrupted, or data lost, because of sync processes trying to access an open file.
Instead, you should keep FrameReady installed in its default location. To make a backup, exit out of the software and then you can safely make a copy of the closed files and paste them into Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive.
“Regular” is determined by the volume of Work Orders, Invoices, and customer data that you are willing to re-type into your computer should you have to restore from the backup copy of FrameReady.
Many easy methods are available, which allow you to feel secure that your data is available in the unfortunate circumstance that you have a disaster.
Be safe, not sorry.
Use several backups and alternate between them.
After many years of hearing stories from FrameReady clients, we cannot emphasize strongly enough the need to get into the habit of making daily back ups.
If you do not have a USB Flash drive or CD-RW drive, you can back up your files to another drive on the same computer or another computer in the office. However, should something happen to your computer, both the current and backup copies of FrameReady would be lost.
Close
FrameReady before
doing
your back up.
If FrameReady is running while you do your back up, the files will
not be saved properly.
Go to the Main Menu.
From the top menu bar, click Help > About this file...
In the File Info dialog box, note
the File
path.
On a Mac, this may look like: file:/Macintosh HD/Applications/FrameReady 11
On Windows, this make look like: file:/C:/Users/Bert/FrameReady 11
Do not move FrameReady into a Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive folder; the files can become corrupted, or data lost, because of sync processes trying to access an open file.