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SveBe's avatar
SveBe
New member | Level 2
12 months ago

Collaborating on a document in shared folder not working

Hello, I am collaborating with a collague on several tasks in a shared dropbox folder. I set it up as I thought it was possible that way to work together on one document - if needed even simutaneously -  (in a similar way you can do it in a googledoc. However, whenever we do that, Dropbox creates a new 'conflicted copy' document and then I have to merge the two docs which is not what I wanted this to be. I would appreciate any help in this -  do I have to change the settings somewhere? Thank you a lot in advance!

  • Hi SveBe 

     

    If you want to collaborate like GDocs you need to open the file on the website. There is no way to open and edit it without conflicts if you do so locally on your machine - because each of you have opened a totally separate version of the file.

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    Hi SveBe 

     

    If you want to collaborate like GDocs you need to open the file on the website. There is no way to open and edit it without conflicts if you do so locally on your machine - because each of you have opened a totally separate version of the file.

    • SveBe's avatar
      SveBe
      New member | Level 2

      Thank you a lot, yes of course, that makes absolutely sense

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