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pewill
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Is there a way to set a file to read-only?

My team is using Dropbox for creating and storing designs. A design is opened in Autodesk Inventor, and a design can exist out of a lot of components, and every component is a file.  The design als...
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pewill
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Update read-only status (or other metadata): with that, Dropbox can be used like a file-management system instead of only beeing Cloud storage. And the next thing: check-in or check-out a file (so put file from read-only)

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