New collaboration features!
Now you can collaborate with your colleagues, straight from the apps that power your work. See if team members are viewing or editing a Microsoft Office file right from the desktop, through the new Dropbox badge.
Get early access to this feature, or learn more about the Dropbox badge.
If you and someone else are both in the same file and the other person saves their changes, the badge will turn into a blue download arrow, indicating that you don’t have the latest version of the file. You can update to the latest version of the file right from the Dropbox badge. When you click the “Get the latest version” the newest version will automatically open. If you have unsaved changes at the time, you can save your changes as a separate version by checking the “Save my changes as a separate version” before opening the newest version.
To get the latest version of a file:
If you want to save your changes as a separate version, you can leave the "Save my changes as a separate version" box checked. This will create a completely separate copy of the file with your changes and won't make any changes to the original file that your colleague already updated.
If you want to discard your unsaved changes, uncheck the "Save my changes as a separate version" box.
This article is about file versions. If you're seeing conflicted copies in your Dropbox, learn more about conflicted copies.
