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'Blender' gives an error when saving a compressed .blend file
When I save a .blend file straight in my Dropbox folder, I'll get an error message from Blender.
ERROR: Cannot change old file (file saved with @)
If you pause the sync in Dropbox, the issue disappears. Apparently, the conflict is because Dropbox takes control of the file.
But pausing the sync every time I start working and enabling it at the end of the day is not a very smooth solution.
I read about it on other platforms, but I didn't find any fix for this problem other than pausing the sync.
I need a fix for this problem because it's bugging me and disturbs my workflow.
And it would be nice if you had the option to set the "Pausing sync" at a specific time.
Thanks for the update, John!
It would seem that this is in fact expected behavior.
The workaround would be what you already suggested, which is to pause syncing while working on these files.
Regarding specific times to pause syncing for, you can check out and up-vote this idea on our idea board.
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey johnfrags, thanks for letting us know about this.
Can you let me know what your computer's OS is?
And also, what is the version of the Dropbox app installed on your computer?
You can see that by hovering your mouse over the Dropbox icon in your system tray/menu bar.
Let me know and we'll take it from there.
Sure 🙂
I have Windows 10 & 11 as my OS.
And my installed version of Dropbox is 147.4.4800
- Hannah
Thanks for the update, John!
It would seem that this is in fact expected behavior.
The workaround would be what you already suggested, which is to pause syncing while working on these files.
Regarding specific times to pause syncing for, you can check out and up-vote this idea on our idea board.
