Background:

When you save a NVivo project file, cloud drives immediately attempt to synchronize these changes to the project file which is stored within the network/cloud. The cloud service is unable to access the project file because NVivo has exclusive access to the file while the project is open in NVivo.

This can cause problems and occasionally NVivo may crash.

If you are using a cloud drive to share your project or to work with others, you may have conflicted copies of your project file in the cloud drive folder. This can happen if one person's changes to the NVivo project file were not synchronized back to the cloud drive before the second person's changes were synchronized.

 

Using Cloud Drives for NVivo Project Files

While working on a project file which is located in the 'Dropbox' folder on your computer or one OneDrive or Google Drive, it is recommended you temporarily pause file synching. 

Related Articles:

Pause/Resume Synch on DropBox

Pause/Resume Synch on OneDrive

Pause/Resume Synch on Google Drive

Conflicted Copy on DropBox

Conflicted Copies on OneDrive

Conflicting Files on Google Drive