Available for ☑️
Plan: Business, Enterprise
Permission: Owner, Manager, Editor
Platform: Windows, macOS
Editing badges help prevent conflict files in shared folders by showing other members when someone is editing a file.
- This feature is enabled by default and requires no additional setup.
- The badge does not lock files. Other folder members see a warning when they try to open a marked file, but they can still edit it. Whoever saves their changes first updates the original file. Changes saved later by other users are stored as conflict files.
Use editing badges
You can use editing badges in the desktop app or in synced local folders.
- In the desktop app
- In a synced folder
- Open the document.
- In the pop-up window:
- Choose a timeframe: 20 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, or 24 hours.
- Optional: Select Always ask when opening editable files in this folder.
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Click Open and Mark as editing.
ℹ️ If you select Don't mark to open the file, others will not see that someone has it open.
- If you finish editing before the badge expires, select
Finished editing from the file's right-side menu. Otherwise, the badge remains active until the selected timeframe ends.
- Right-click the document in the local folder.
- Select
Mark as editing.
- Choose a timeframe: 20 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, or 24 hours.
- When you finish editing, select