Reunion 14 and Reunion Touch

[Anna Call]

How many devices can I use with my Reunion 14 and Reunion Touch? I work on a desktop, two laptops and an iPad.

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

For the free account with Dropbox the limit is 3 devices. If you have a paid account, it is probably more. I don't know what the limit is if you are using iCloud.

[Anna Call]

Thanks so much - the synching issue makes sense now. I'll try iCloud.

[gammarayon]

I made the move to iCloud to sync Reunion 14 on my Mac with ReunionTouch on my iPhone. I proceeded as follows:
1) I disconnected from Reunion.app.
2) I moved my family .familyfile14 file of Dropbox (previously upgraded to Reunion 14 format) to somewhere in my Documents folder of iCloud Drive.
3) I opened ReunionTouch on my iPhone.
4) While I could see my latest family file (version 14) followed by

1395 people - Dropbox

I clicked

Download family file from iCloud Drive

5) I clicked on my current file in the Documents folder where I had just placed it.
It uploads from iCloud, but I then get the error message:

Host family is missing
The host gamily file on Dropbox "..." can't be found. It may have been moved or renamed.

with the following two choices

Locate the Host Family File
Continue in Unlinked Mode

This means that ReunionTouch (which is version 1.0.21 seemingly the latest) expects to continue working with DropBox!

If I click

Locate the Host Family File

it fails to find it and sends me to a page with

ReunionTouch would like access to the files and folders in your DropBox. Learn More.
Allow
[old e-mail address]
Use a different account

and pops up:

"Dropbox" wants to open "ReunionTouch"
Cancel Open

Why is DropBox still working on ReunionTouch? Can I get rid of it? Should I remove DropBox from my iPhone?

If I exit, re-open, re-upload the Reunion file I had just placed on my iCloud folder, and click instead on

Continue in Unlinked Mode

I am in my family file with ReunionTouch, but if I modify it, the changes do not appear on why Mac's Reunion. So I suspect this is a DropBox file.

What should I do to avoid seeing DropBox everywhere and have a smooth synchronization via iCloud?

[Gregg]

On your Mac, after you move the family file from Dropbox to iCloud Drive, you need to open the family file, choose File > Sharing Status and then click Reset Sharing.

On your iPhone (or iPad) you need to open ReunionTouch and delete the Dropbox family. Do this from the Welcome to ReunionTouch screen. Swipe left to delete your family file.

Then you can download your family file into ReunionTouch from iCloud Drive.

[johnles]

Does Reunion 14 work happily with OS Big Sur?

[Bob White]

Does Reunion 14 work happily with OS Big Sur?

Yes. See https://www.leisterpro.com/doc/v14/q...wers/mymac.php for a full Reunion 14 compatibility list.

[gammarayon]

On your Mac, after you move the family file from Dropbox to iCloud Drive, you need to open the family file, choose File > Sharing Status and then click Reset Sharing.

On your iPhone (or iPad) you need to open ReunionTouch and delete the Dropbox family. Do this from the Welcome to ReunionTouch screen. Swipe left to delete your family file.

Then you can download your family file into ReunionTouch from iCloud Drive.

Thanks, Gregg, this worked indeed! I no longer see any reference to DropBox.

However, I notice that neither Reunion on my Mac nor ReunionTouch on my iPhone is saving to iCloud. I discovered this, by adding, yesterday, some information on a family member on Reunion Mac and then adding some information on another family member on ReunionTouch. The family file in my iCloud directory is one month old, as seen from my Mac and from my iPhone.

I believe that iCloud is correctly set up for Reunion on my Mac and for ReunionTouch on my iPhone:
In Reunion: Settings > Folder Settings > Family Files points to a file in my iCloud Drive (in folder ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com_apple~CloudDocs/Documents/GENEALOGY/REUNION for me).
In ReunionTouch: Welcome to ReunionTouch: "Connected to iCloud" is written below "Download family file from iCloud Drive", and if I tap that, I am in my "REUNION" folder and I see all the files that I see on my Mac, with the same dates, including a .ged file that I exported yesterday from Reunion on Mac.

So I am puzzled of this lack of iCloud synchronization, both by Reunion on my Mac and by ReunionTouch on my iPhone. Do I need to reboot both the Mac and the iPhone?