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Jason D.8's avatar
Jason D.8
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Updating a file changes the link...

I noticed today that editing a file and resaving it without changing the name now changes the Dropbox link, and it definitely didn't used to do that before. That was one of the great things with Drop...
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago

    Jason D.8 wrote:

    ... all I had to do was go to the original Word document, change it, then export it and overwrite the old PDF in the process.


    As a test, go through the same process but export the file to a different location and then manually move it into the Dropbox folder, overwriting the original. Check your link after the move is complete.

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