You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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Thomas F.4's avatar
Thomas F.4
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Files Open as Read-Only?

I am using Dropbox desktop App on my Mac (home) and PC (work). On the Mac (OSX latest version and Office 2011) everything works fine. But on my PC (Windows 7 Pro, Office 2010) files open as Read On...
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  • rabinmoser's avatar
    rabinmoser
    7 years ago
    wrote:
    I don't understand why when I open a file - it asks me at the top if I want to enable editing. Which I DO! so I click on it. But after i have closed the document and reopened it the edits I have made have gone. Does anyone know how you save edits on Dropbox withoutmoving a file/document out of dropbox every time?

    I have the same problem in my smart phone. After I make a change in an excel file, I have to save a copy. Then delete the original. That is the solution I found.

Thomas F.4's avatar
Thomas F.4
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

OK.  For me the update caused no problem.  It worked fine on my Mac at home but accessing the same files on my PC at work gave me the read only problem.

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