Can we have an option to lock files we're working on to avoid conflicted copies?

[Angie O.]

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 files. I would love to have something in the Dropbox UI that allows us to see if another person is working on the file or has the file open. It would save us a lot of FLAME texting. We love each other but this is one thing that makes us want to kill each other.

[Nancy]

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[Mark]

That is coming - Project Carousel.

But it looks likely to be Dropbox for Busineess only.

[ArtDepartment V]

I have to share images and pdfs with reps for our company and they end up deleting the files in the shared folder.

[Mark]

You can set up preferences like that at www.dropbox.com/share by clicking on the 'Options' button for each share.

Or if they only need to view them why not use shared links? www.dropbox.com/help/167

[ArtDepartment V]

Thank you for your quick reply! That does work for a main shared folder but it won't give me the options for the folder i need. I have a folder called Photos with several other folders inside. I want to be able to "lock" these folders. I've already shared the link to these folders so I didn't want to resend a new link if I don't have to.

[Mark]

Ah, no, you cant lock parts of a folder I'm afraid. Its a one size fits all system

[ArtDepartment V]

Ok. Maybe that can be a suggestion for the Dropbox web builders. Thank you again, Mark!

[Dave C.5]

You cant delete files from a LINK anyway

EDIT: You can now lock files to prevent a file from being edited, which you can find out more about from here.

[Kingbuilt D.]

We need Dropbox to lock files once someone has them open, to prevent them being opened by another user, in order to prevent conflicted file errors.

[Thales Luis S.]

This would be a nice feature indeed

[Hana U.]

That would be cool!