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Getting an error saving an Autocad file, tmp files created?
I use Autocad to work on files I have stored and shared here in Dropbox. My Autocad is set to save every ten minutes. I also manually save very often because I've learned a valuable lesson once when ...
I am having the same problem with Office applications. As of 7 days ago, all save operations from Word or Excel to a dropbox folder on my harddrive fail. Office does not create tmp files in this case - it just prompts you to save somewhere else. Something is locking the file in the folder, preventing the application from saving. It could be dropbox, it could be windows search, not sure. Google has not turned up any ideas.
This is happening for both my corporate and personal dropbox folders. I'm running windows 8.
Strangely, I CAN save wordpad or notepad documents to the same folder. This only is affecting Office documents.
I thought that perhaps dropbox is putting a lock on the file, so I did a file/Save As from word to a different filename in the same folder - it still fails. It creates a 0 byte file, then prompts me to save somewhere else.
