Note: Files and folders that are available offline won’t automatically change to online-only regardless of available hard drive space.Ī solid grey circle with a white cloud icon means your file or folder is fully synced and online-only. While this file or folder is stored on your device, it can be made online-only by right-clicking and selecting Make online-only. “Available offline” means that your file or folder is available when you’re not connected to the internet.įor folders, this icon means all files in the folder are available offline. “Synced” means that any changes you made to this file or folder are reflected everywhere you access your files in Dropbox. You will see this icon after right-clicking a file or folder and selecting Make available offline. Note: The sync icons that appears on folders will depend on the sync status of the files/folders contained within them.Ī solid green circle with a white checkmark means your file or folder is synced and available offline. If you are still having problems please contact us.Below are the sync icons that appear on files and folders in your Dropbox folder in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac). Received an emailed invite from Dropbox (and checked your spam folder)Ĭlicked the "Accept invite" button within that invite If you can't see the shared Dropbox folder, check that you have: Because Countfire automatically manages the output files that get saved to Dropbox, and will free up space on a regular basis, purchasing a paid Dropbox account is not required. If you don’t already have one, you can create a free account with 2GB of storage here.
In addition to needing to visit and log in to the website each time you process your Countfire takeoff, you also then need to manually download the files. You can also view Countfire’s output files on the website, however, this isn’t recommended because of the additional steps required to access the output files.
You can download and install the Dropbox app here. You simply process your Countfire takeoff, and when the output files are ready, they will appear on your computer. This is the recommended method for accessing Countfire’s output files, because of its fast and automatic nature. The dropbox app is an application you install on your computer and which allows the automatic syncing of files from Countfire. What’s the difference between the Dropbox app and ?ĭropbox offers two methods for accessing files within the shared Dropbox folder. Then, each time you process a takeoff, the output files are saved into the shared Dropbox folder, and automatically synced to your computer. You will receive an emailed invite directly from Dropbox (don't forget to check your spam folder) and once you accept that invite, the shared folder will be accessible in your Dropbox account. Countfire uses Dropbox to automatically sync its output files to your computer and represents the fastest possible workflow for delivering output files to Countfire customers.ĭropbox is a cloud-based service that allows automatic syncing of files between different devices or computers.Īfter you've done an initial take-off within Countfire, and you send that takeoff off for final processing, Countfire automatically shares a Dropbox folder with you.