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SophiaP
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1 hour ago

Dropbox Files Folder on IPad Corrupting PDFs

Hi everyone.

I use dropbox primarily through the files folder on my iPad and computer, where I annotate PDFs of textbooks for law school. I have been doing this for a year and it's worked pretty well. Recently, however, I have two problems:

(1) Even if I download offline the pdf to my files folder, at some point if I am editing offline, it will try to sync and fail and undownload, leaving me unable to edit the file. 

(2) In the last week, I have annotated PDFs and saved them. Then they become corrupted and won't open. I then have to restore an earlier version of the PDF, which doesn't have the latest annotation, which is super annoying to lose all of my work.

Any ideas or advice on either issue?

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