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Mark's avatar
Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
9 years ago

Re: How to keep comments between versions?

It isnt possible no, sorry, but its a good suggestion - I'll make sure its passed on.

As a possible work around have you looked at Paper? You can comment and tag individual parts of files and then simply add the new version underneath?

www.dropbox.com/paper

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  • LiberGM's avatar
    LiberGM
    Helpful | Level 5
    9 years ago

    Thanks for your reply. I will try Paper for my next project!

    However, I would love to see that new feature implemented :wink:

  • Ed's avatar
    Ed
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    9 years ago

    Hey LiberGM

     

    This is a pretty interesting workflow and I totally get your point (clients will be like "where are the previous comments I made?") and explaining that this is a new file and where the previous comments were may be just as painful as working on the iterations :)

     

     I'll send this feedback to our team behind 'comments' to have it on their radar. Thanks for sharing!

  • Emme's avatar
    Emme
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    I know this is an old post, but I'm running into the same issue. I want to show my team mate that their comments have been addressed by seeing the new design with the comments, but it looks like it's either one or the other even though the pages of the document are the same.

  • CypherKun's avatar
    CypherKun
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago

    Same here. I plan to use Dropbox and commention feature to communicate with my private tutor. We use JPG scans of book and write/type/draw over it. After I update file I don't want comments to disapper because, well, you know, it is still the same file with just some extra drawing over it.

    There should be an option at least that lets you move comments to newer version of file.

  • podusa's avatar
    podusa
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago

    I also would like to keep comments between versions! I make music for movies and it would be really helpful when changing music on a cue, but keep all other feedback/comments on cues that's not changed

  • podusa's avatar
    podusa
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago

    (Oops, see now that its an old post. I was trying to suggest this feature for Replay)

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