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Posted: 06 Sep 2016 07:30 AM PDT

A common use case for Google Drive users is to download a file from their Drive to modify

it locally, and then to re-upload the new version. In the past, this would result in duplicate

files (the original and the new one), and users would have trouble finding the latest version.

That’s why we’re introducing a change in Drive to deduplicate files which were uploaded

in this way.

Once launched, when users upload files that have the same filename as an existing file,

they’ll be deduplicated, and the old file will be in revision history. This is so that if any

mistakes are made, users can get back to the previous version. Similarly, uploaded

folders will be merged with folders of the same name.

To prevent the files from being deduplicated, click on “Keep as separate file” once it’s been uploaded.

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