Another Great Dropbox Story

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

My girlfriend just emailed me tonight about her computer locking up on her today on her job.  The audio file got corrupted on her computer and became unusable.  Fortunately, she was doing division interval to Dropbox throughout the day.  When she got home and checked on Dropbox, her audio was there. 

Here is her story:

"Hey Kell, wanted to make sure and warn you to be careful about including any of those macros in your dix.   My laptop completely froze up today (just like yoursdid during the training session) and I had to do a hard reboot at which time my wav file became unusable and had a multimedia error.

 

had I not had my files going onto my dropbox division interval folder, I would've been completely screwed as they were going really fast and also had a loud A/C noise in the background.   It was REALLY scary as I thought I'd lost it until I got home and was able to make sure it was on dropbox.   never been so relieved in my life to find my audio and have it working!!"

I've never used Dropbox for a regular job, but after getting this email, I think maybe this is a good reason to start doing it. 

[Alice Clark]

Kelli, Do you know if your computer has to be able to access the internet during the deposition to be able to do the interval upload to Dropbox?  Just wondering how that works.

[Rhonda Hall Breuwet, RDR CRR CLR]

yes, you have to be online for intervals to upload.

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

Hi, Alice

Yes, you have to be online so Eclipse (perhaps CaseCat) can upload sections into the "cloud."  It's pretty easy to set up. 

[Martha R]

Nice recovery story!   Don't you all do audio with your writer, too?  

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I have a Diamante and if I did the audio, it won't sync with my Eclipse software, only CaseCat.  I'm sure there is some procedure you could follow to convert the audio so you could hear it I guess.  Not so sure of the process.