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markos zotos
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3 months ago
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Will the Dropbox app notify us if we edit online-only files from two computers at the same time?

Question or Issue Hello, I was looking around to use dropbox for my work. In my line of work, we use a lot of CAD program files. Because, of that it take a lot of space to have all the files in e...
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    Hannah
    3 months ago

    Hi there, markos zotos, thanks for joining our Community!

    To open and edit an online-only file, the file first needs to be downloaded/synced to your computer.

    That means that online-only files cannot be edited anyway, so consequently, you won't receive any such notification.

    I hope that makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions.

    Thanks!

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Hannah
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3 months ago

Hi there, markos zotos, thanks for joining our Community!

To open and edit an online-only file, the file first needs to be downloaded/synced to your computer.

That means that online-only files cannot be edited anyway, so consequently, you won't receive any such notification.

I hope that makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

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