When working with more than one person on files, there may be situations where there are conflicts during the synchronization. For example if two persons are working on the same file, the last one who saves the file also wins during the synchronization which is triggered as soon as the file is being saved.

Conflict handling

In the case of a file conflict the client keeps the newest file version (by last modification date) at the original place (e.g. BalanceSheet.xls). All other members of the folder will receive this copy, however will also keep the previous version in their file archive, so nothing should get lost. The overwritten version can be restored from the file archive then. Furthermore they will get a notification in their client about the conflict and a warning symbol next to the folder in which the conflict happened.