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jameshoganarchitects
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3 years ago

Alerts highlighting files that are already open

When working with a team on dropbox is would be brilliant to have an alert appear whenever yo attempt to open a file that is already in use by another team member. I understand there is a make shift ...
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Nancy
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3 years ago

Thanks for your post, jameshoganarchitects! 

 

By the way, have you tried locking the file you’re editing? Does this feature help with what you’d like to achieve exactly? 

 

Let me know.

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