Win 10 21H1 32bit
Is there something peculiar about the process with which Win 10 overwrites a file? I am asking this because I am having a lot of trouble with a specific function of Dropbox, and the guru at Dropbox promises me that the issue is with Windows.
Here is what is happening
1. I have some files in Dropbox that I need to keep up to date - the files are linked and shared on a website.
2. I keep second identical files of each on the desktop, which I edit to make changes. I then copy the appropriate file over top of its counterpart file in Dropbox, and often, this borks the the link, which means getting a new link and going to the website, and editing the links there - A Pain!
• Copy and paste often borks the links
• Drag and drop often borks the links
• Delete and replace is not an option because deleting the files will always immediately bork the link
• I tried using a third party copy app (Teracopy), but this still borks the links
However, there are three things that don't break the link
• If I directly edit the files, the link is maintained, it never gets broken.
• If I upload the files directly to Dropbox online using a browser (not via the Desktop App), the link is maintained.
• One of the files is a PDF, and while I cannot edit those, the data is all in an excel spreadsheet and I can export that as a PDF. So long as I always export over the top of the existing linked file in Dropbox, the link is maintained, but if export to a separate file and try to copy over top of the linked file, that borks the link!

This never used to happen with Windows 7. I conclude that there must be something odd about the way Windows 10 does copy and paste or drag and drop when replacing and existing file; something different from the way software like Excel, or Word or notepad does it.

Now, I'm not looking for a fix here - I am happy enough to use one if the methods that works, but I was just curious if anyone has heard of something like this before, as well as what might be the reason for it.