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PastaShock
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

Editing PDFs on Dropbox on Android corrupts the PDF

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PastaShock's avatar
PastaShock
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

I've only tried it on 2 PDFs so far. But I am two for two.

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    Hannah
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for trying, PastaShock, once you have the screenshots please send them along.

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      PastaShock
      Explorer | Level 4
      1 month ago

      Ok,so today I am getting something different. I edit the PDF and then exit out of PDF Veiwer Pro, and I get 2 files: the original file and another one with the same name but (XXXXX's conflicted copy) in the filename.

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