Windows 11 Can no longer rename + replace a file. It keeps the original, which I have to delete.

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This week the Dropbox update changed all kinds of settings on my MacAir. (It deleted every folder I'd saved to my Sidebar in Finder, for instance.) Worse of all, I now have a Renaming Problem.I frequently save Files and Screenshots to my Desktop to rename and put in Folders later. But now I have twice the work because no matter how I rename a file, it keeps the original (e.g., I rename Screenshot 2023-03-20.png and now I have that file AND the renamed file). So I have to go back and delete the original—for dozens of files, all day long! Is there a Setting that allows you to Name & Replac

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