<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have been corresponding with Richard Koch about TeXShop and Dropbox.<div class="">I reported to him that TeXShop often crashes when typesetting. </div><div class="">He asked whether my files are in Dropbox. They are.</div><div class="">He explained that this may be the cause for my crashes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I moved the files out of Dropbox, and the crashes stopped.</div><div class="">Then I used Dropboxtool (a free utility from <a href="https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/50873/dropboxtool" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class=""> MacUpdate</a>)</div><div class="">to add a symlink from the TeX files to Dropbox, so Dropbox keeps on</div><div class="">securing my files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So far, so good. No crashes, files secured.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to hear if anybody else is using this technique,</div><div class="">and whether this stops the crashes, as it did for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">George</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>