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AR18
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

How to avoid duplicates when uploading content?

Hello, i'm struggling when i have to import folders or files from other sources. In other systems I am used to get a popup saying that the file is already existing with the same name...etc... asking for replacing or saving however with a _1.... it seems we have no the same feature in Dropbox and, as a result, when I import such kind of duplicates, i found both recorded with original and original (1).... could we make somewhere a rule to ask for this?

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    Rich
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    AR18 wrote:

    In other systems I am used to get a popup saying that the file is already existing with the same name...etc... asking for replacing or saving however with a _1 ... could we make somewhere a rule to ask for this?


    Dropbox has no such feature.

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