Conflicted copies?

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 07 Oct 2011 22:14

Something odd happened today when using FH on two mc's with Dropbox synchronising the changes. For the first time that I can recall when I went to open FH ( using Gedcom file rather than a Project) I noticed that in addition to my updated file I also had two addditional files in my FH folder both had the additional (Dagwood's conflicted copy 2011-10-07) between the normal title and the suffix .ged .
Can anyone throw any light on why this has just happened? i should add the two extra copies were timed just minutes before the final saved copy and did not have the final few changes that the last coy had.
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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 07 Oct 2011 22:27

I suspect something meant you had the file open on both computers. I have seen it a couple of times, and just use the merge compare to check the changes are in the master file.

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 07 Oct 2011 22:44

Will do , thanks Jane
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Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 08 Oct 2011 08:21

Having thought about it, at no time were both machines on together yesterday. Puzzle isn't it?
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Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 10 Oct 2011 21:51

I managed to recreate the problem! It wasn't that both machines were on and using FH it was that I had two applications of FH running on one machine. Why? you might ask, and I can't give a good answer other than that instead of switching between a diagram window and a focus window I had opened FH twice and left each open with a different window. I don't think I'll do that again!
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