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aisb
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

Dropbox no longer overwriting files

A few days ago, Dropbox stopped overwriting files when I edit and re-save them. Now, every time I edit one of my files on iPad and save to Dropbox, it creates a new file ending in (1). It used to sim...
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lindswah007
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

I am having this problem too. I use procreate to save images to dropbox. I really need to have the option to overwrite files with the same name. It used to give me this option but also stopped a couple of months ago and now saves with the same file name but (1) at the end. Thank you

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