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aisb
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

Dropbox no longer overwriting files

A few days ago, Dropbox stopped overwriting files when I edit and re-save them. Now, every time I edit one of my files on iPad and save to Dropbox, it creates a new file ending in (1). It used to sim...
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Nancy
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4 years ago

Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing great!

 

Are any of you still facing the same issue, by any chance? 

 

If so, please let me know so that we can open a ticket for you.

JalapenoCheese's avatar
JalapenoCheese
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
YES WE ARE STILL EXPERIENCING THIS ISSUE.

  • aisb's avatar
    aisb
    Helpful | Level 7
    4 years ago
    Of course we're still having this issue. Does anyone from Dropbox have any intention of trying to fix it, or even acknowledging the problem? It's been months.
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    mimicapri
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago
    Yes, I also have this problem on my iphoneXr since ios15, but not on my ipad air2 despite it being on ios15 too. Very annoying on the phone. I save Gdrive documents regularly to my dropbox, so the replace option is a godsend when it works
 please, fix this!

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