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Help me more enlightened members of STW. We use Dropbox in my team at work as a few of us tend to flit around different sites, myself included. As we all have to access the same workbooks throughout the day deleting conflicted copies has become a daily chore for yours truly.
Is there a way to share workbooks within Dropbox wherein multiple users can access, make changes, save them and just one copy with all changes is actually saved? Or am I condemned to play conflicted copy roulette where I have to choose the most likely up to date version.
Dropbox should do all that for you, but if two of you have the same file open, you still have a conflict which Dropbox can't resolve.
We use it for shared project spaces at work and sharing Excel workbooks etc without any trouble.
Possibly Google Docs is a better choice if you have people editing the same file simultaneously, but I've not tried that...
Use OneDrive instead.
Cheers footflaps. It’s editing at the same time that’s causing the issues. Couple of heavy traffic workbooks that see a lot of use. Looking for a solution whereby multiple users can edit the same doc simultaneously and all changes are saved. Thinking it might not be doable.
Use OneDrive instead.
Can't comment personally but people at work who have tried both OneDrive and Dropbox have slated OD as being slow and no where near as user friendly as DB. We get OD free with Office 365 but pay extra for Dropbox as it's so good.
... but it doesn't do what the OP wants and OneDrive with O365 does.
(As does Google Docs, as you suggested, and very well indeed.)
Same issue here. Pay for Dropbox and One Drive appears to cripple usability on a couple of PC’s. Will give it another test though. Pity Dropbox has this flaw
Cheers guys.
It's not so much a flaw as a lack of a feature, to be fair.
When I used my weak google-fu there were lots of complaints about it. You’d think they would update it really. Great tool apart from this.
This is classic shadow-IT...
A shared Excel workbook in OneDrive may work (it allows concurrent editing) but what you really need is a proper solution - a spreadsheet isn't the answer here! Sounds like you need to invest in a CMS which uses a proper database back end.
Store the file in dropbox. Move the file to your PC when editing, put it back when finished.