I'm quite new in Latex and not familiar with too much coding or other technical stuff, so I need you to answer me as you would answer a six year old

I'm writing a project with a group of other students in Latex. We share the files in Dropbox, dunno if that might affect it. I can open their Latex file and view the pdf in texmaker but it won't show my changes in the PDF when I try to compile it, instead it just shows the same old PDF as before I edited. The others think it's because I'm running it on a Mac, but it has worked for me a year ago, when I worked on a similar project with a group, and had no issues...
Any ideas?