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Hi. So I know this may very well be a problem on my end, but I can’t seem to solve it so I thought I’d try here. I’m using a new iPad pro, and I’m having trouble using it with pages and Keynote. If I have a file saved in dropbox and I want to edit it, I ‘open in’ Pages/Keynote, and then I start working on it. After a while, I’ll get a message saying that ‘the file has been deleted in another location’ and then the file closes. When I go to look for it, I find many versions of the file at various stages of my editing having been saved in dropbox, but not the most recent one. So I thought maybe I was doing it wrong but as far as I can tell, I should be exporting the file from dropbox to the other app, then working on it, then when I’m done, saving it back to dropbox. But that’s just what I’m doing. Am I completely misunderstanding the iPad workflow? I’m not a newbie but this is my first time trying to use an iPad as my sole computer. Thanks!
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I posyed this same issue kast week, but the only response i got was dropbox asking me questions inhad clearly already answered in my post. i’m reposting here since that thread was closed and will add whatever info i can to try to make it clearer.
I’m using a new iPad pro, and I’m having trouble using it with pages and Keynote. i have all the latest versions of my OS, dropbox, pages and keynote. If I have a file saved in dropbox and I want to edit it, I ‘open in’ Pages/Keynote, and then I start working on it. After a while, I’ll get an error message saying that ‘the file has been deleted in another location’ and then the file closes. When I go to look for it, I find many versions of the file at various stages of my editing having been saved in dropbox, but not the most recent one. So I thought maybe I was doing it wrong but as far as I can tell, I should be exporting the file from dropbox to the other app, then working on it, then when I’m done, saving it back to dropbox. But that’s just what I’m doing. Am I completely misunderstanding the iPad workflow? I’m not a newbie but this is my first time trying to use an iPad as my sole computer. Thanks!
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Hi, and thanks. So there are several related issues here. I took a couple of screenshots for one problem, which I’ll describe and attach here.
In this case, I have a file (.docx) in Dropbox. I export it to Pages, work on it, and then go to save it to dropbox. In the case of these screenshots, I click on ‘Share’ and then ‘Copy to Dropbox’ (second row of icons), then I get an error that says ‘an unknown error occurred’. Then I have to click OK, and Pages closes. When I go back into Dropbox, I see that it’s saved all sorts of versions that say ‘conflicted copy’ after them, and it usually doesn’t have the latest version at all. I’ve attached a screenshot of the dropbox folder with all of these autosaved conflicted versions as well.
The ‘file has been deleted’ error message hasn’t popped up today, but when it does, I’ll attach a copy of that too. Thanks!
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Hello @sanchez,
I'm having the same issue as Cleverbean.
Could you please help me out as well?
Best,
Leandro
@clever bean. And I have the same issues, loads of conflicting copies of my Pages document, and an error messages saying the file has been deleted in another location. I am working on an IPad Pro, and all software is updated. For me it only happens in Pages, not in Words.
Best regards
Henning
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