Can I use EndNote with DropBox if I don't use EndNote on the web?

For a variety of reasons, it would be very helpful to me if I could share my EndNote libraries in DropBox. If I do NOT use EndNote on the Web will using DropBox cause me problems?

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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!! Using Endnotes on ANY type of cloud, including Dropbox, Google Drive, and that One-something that Microsoft pushes will create awfulness. Leanne (bless her) provides the basic guidelines: you can STORE whatever you want in the cloud, but don’t ever try to INSERT citations into a document while it’s sitting in the cloud. Opening the empty library would be the least of your problems. More sneaky…it finds a library, inserts what looks like a fine {citation}, but then when you run the bibliography the citations just disappear in a poof of daemon dust. Gone, curly quotes and all. You can’t even tell where you had them inserted. You start ALL OVER. DON’T GO THERE!!!

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