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Can we have an option to lock files we're working on to avoid conflicted copies?
My business partner and I (often working from different locations) are constantly working on the same documents and trying to save our work at the same time. Result: lots of conflicted copies of file...
I want to stop multiple people opening and editing the same file.
Once a file is open - it cannot be opened by another user until the inital user has closed it.
How can I do this?
Thanks.
- Nate_C
Super User
If you are using Microsoft Office, Dropbox has a built in "badge" integrated with Office that notifies if multiple people are trying to edit the same file concurrently. For other files though, Dropbox does not support this. However, if a conflict occurs, Dropbox will create a "Conflicted Copy" instead of overwriting one of the versions.
Thanks Nate, I had noticed the badge would pop up every now and again - but sometimes it doenst show up when others are in the file.
Keeping the file locked while another user was in it would be a nice feature.
