What happens if two people work on the same file at the same time in a shared Dropbox folder Does one copy of the file overwrite the other
If two people are editing the same file at the same time, Dropbox saves both versions of the file in the shared folder. The service does not merge the two different files, but adds the words “conflicted copy†to the file name of the second version so it is obvious that two different copies of the same file now exist.
The file name of the second copy also lists the date that the conflict occurred between the two versions of the file. The computer name or name of the person who was working on the file is appended to the name as well, making it somewhat easier to identify the collaborator and ensure that everyone’s changes are incorporated into one final version of the document.
