However, it might cause problems if more than one person edits the document at the exact same time. This means that if you want to have multiple people commenting on a shared draft in Dropbox it will work. My comments stayed labeled with my name and the time, and Evan’s showed up with his name and in a different color, as per normal.
For more information on Dropbox, see my previous post. So if someone else makes a change to that file and saves it, those changes will be updated on that file on my computer. This means that with a shared folder, all members of that folder have all the same, synced files in that folder. The folder looks like a normal folder, except that each of the items in it (folders or files) has their usual icon but with a small green check mark, a blue “syncing” arrows, or a red “unsyncable” “X.” Changes you make to the files in your Dropbox folder are synced and saved on the version of the file on the Dropbox servers. Dropbox works by having a folder on your hard drive, aptly named “Dropbox,” that syncs with your Dropbox account on their servers. A Quick Note on the Word/Dropbox Methodįor our experimenting, I put several different Word documents in a Dropbox folder that I then shared with Evan. These documents are synced across all copies – on my computer, on the Dropbox servers, and on any other people who I’ve shared the folder with. Here is what my test shared Dropbox folder looks like.
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