One thing I'd hope Dropbox does well is not get stuck with syncing when a program is running. I had my evernote database file in dropbox folder but it wouldn't syc if evernote is on. It wouldn't sync if I keep my pwsafe on. I now wonder how is it going to handle if I selectively sync Firefox bookmarks. I have to shut down these programs in order for dropbox to sync, which makes no sense.
It might be the fault of those programs. Depending on how they have the file locked, it may be impossible to Dropbox to read it (not to mention potentially dangerous -- how'd you like your Evernote DB to be sync'd mid-way through a save?)
You're right, but evernote auto saves and so does the password safe. I'm not technical but there should be an easy way. Let's just look at this scenario of backing up bookmarks in Firefox. Assuming that Dropbox would react the same way as it currently does, if I were to selectively sync only my bookmarks and if my Firefox is always ON, than how is it going to help me if my dropbox is always stuck in the limbo while I'm browsing the net?
I'm not technical but there should be an easy way.
In what sense are you using the word 'should'?
Technically, if FireFox or Evernote holds it's files "open" or "in use" then it doesn't make sense for other programs to try to use them or to act as if they are going to be in any predictable state.
If you mean should in the sense that the computer industry should have solved this problem, then it is solved for some classes of program - always on database servers still need backups, so you instruct them to put the database in a consistent state, take a copy, and then instruct them to carry on. Previously, you would shut them down, take a backup, then restart them.
But to use that solution, both the database and the backup system have to be extended to support this, and to have it on a normal user system, every program would have to have a way to accept that kind of instruction from outside, and things like Evernote and FireFox haven't been designed with that in mind.
There could have been an easy way, except there wasn't one built in historically and now it's not easy to add one, so there isn't an easy way and wont be in the near future, even though it would be nice if there was. Your best hope is a FireFox plugin and an Evernote update if enough people ask them.
