I like Dropbox. I use it all the time to share files across machines and work on group projects. However, I don’t like how Dropbox duplicates files as and saves them as conflicted copies. It’s not something that I need or use. I just delete those “conflicted” files. 99.99% of the time the conflicted files are not conflicted, Dropbox is just over zealous. Also I use .git to handle my file pushes so I know right away if files have changed. I don’t need Dropbox doing this for me.
I work on a Mac so here is something I run in my terminal to quickly remove those annoying conflicted files.
$ cd dropbox
$ find . -type f -name "* conflicted *" -exec rm -f {} \;