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fedeboraxx
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2 years ago

Conflicted copy when exporting video

Hi there, Every time I export a video from Premiere - since the process takes a while - Dropbox creates a new copy (something about conflicted copy and a timestamp).  Do I need to pause Dropbox eve...
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Jay
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Do you have any other apps or services that could be monitoring the Dropbox folder at the same time as the creation of the file? This could be security software, indexing services, or anything else similar?

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fedeboraxx
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

Nope

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    Hannah
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    2 years ago

    Hey fedeboraxx, can you actually send us a screenshot of how the name of the conflicted copy appears on your end, since you also mentioned something about a timestamp, so we can look into that?

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