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daylef
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Conflicted Copy different scenario without a solution

I've recently moved away from One Drive (there are some serious privacy concerns with it in my opinion) and I'm trying get around the Dropbox Conflicted Copy "problem". Dropbox creates a CC file wher...
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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
3 years ago

Just a heads up. You are going to run in to huge problems running an Access database on Dropbox I'm afraid - in fact on any cloud storage system. Its just not designed to do that. 

 

The issue with Conflicted Copies is you have two different data sets. So in the two files of the Access database you'll have 2 different records - these need manually fixing hence the conflicts. It wouldn't work to just archive one and continue using a version without looking at the other. 

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