I know this is because of the way I have organised things. I have the Gig Performer folder in my Dropbox folder and a link to it, which works at it should during use of GP.
However; I think my question is easily answered by those who knows how the installation routine is organized.
During the installation I get this message from Dropbox (translated from norwegian);
Do you want to delete “Aftertouch Treshold Detector.gpp_internal“ and 14 other elements fron your Dropbox account and all devices?
If you move these elements to “Config.Msi“, they will no lenger be available in Dropbox or on any devices.
Are these elements only files that the upgrade routine has set up for deletion before finishing, and the message only caused by Dropbox wanting to warn before deletion?
I would seriously discourage anybody from storing data in systems like Dropbox — those things try to sync files based on timestamps and if it decides that a “newer” dropbox folder doesn’t have certain files it may very well just delete them. I don’t use Dropbox but I use NextCloud which is a very similar and I’ve certainly seen this (misguided decision making) behavior before.
The upgrade process in GP doesn’t have anything explicitly marked for deletion but you may have added files to a dropbox folder that are not in the installer and given the way things like Dropbox work, all bets are off.
I’ll be careful. So far it seems like everything is working ok after I decided to let Dropbox delete those files. I thought it may be how Dropbox reacts when files that are already there get overwritten during an installation.
What is your method for keeping things in sync between your main and your backup PC?