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nathan s.2's avatar
nathan s.2
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

conflicting copies and deleted files still appearing

For weeks now we have been seeing the same users getting conflicting copies in there group dropbox folders. These users won't ever open these specific files therefore don't understand why the same fi...
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Richard M.41's avatar
Richard M.41
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

This is an awful system. One of my colleagues now has file names with so many instances of "conflicted" in them that the files (or the folders in which they are contained) cannot be deleted or renamed because the file names are too long. Dropbox has managed to bring Windows7/10 to a crashing halt. Well done, and great way to build a customer base (like trying to get help for this!)

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