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SveBe
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2 years ago
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Collaborating on a document in shared folder not working

Hello, I am collaborating with a collague on several tasks in a shared dropbox folder. I set it up as I thought it was possible that way to work together on one document - if needed even simutaneousl...
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    Mark
    2 years ago

    Hi SveBe 

     

    If you want to collaborate like GDocs you need to open the file on the website. There is no way to open and edit it without conflicts if you do so locally on your machine - because each of you have opened a totally separate version of the file.

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2 years ago

Hi SveBe 

 

If you want to collaborate like GDocs you need to open the file on the website. There is no way to open and edit it without conflicts if you do so locally on your machine - because each of you have opened a totally separate version of the file.

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SveBe
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2 years ago

Thank you a lot, yes of course, that makes absolutely sense

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