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jamze
Explorer | Level 4
5 months ago

Conflicted copies of files even when I'm the only one editing them

Has anyone else run into issues where Dropbox creates multiple “conflicted copy” versions of the same file — even when you’re the only one editing? I love Dropbox for sharing and backups, but the syn...
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Walter
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5 months ago

Hey jamze - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

As a first step, have you made sure that you don't have the same file open on multiple devices?

Let us know more and we'll take it from there. 

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