Version control with concurrent InCopy and InDesign packages

Hi there,
If Editor A uses the "Forward for InCopy" option to create and send an InCopy package (.incp) to Editor B, and then erroneously uses the "Return for InDesign" function to create an InDesign package (.indp) before the Editor B has returned the new version of the package, can the superflous .indp file (that will never be used by anyone) be safely deleted?
The goal is to receive a new .incp file from Editor B and to treat it as the current version of the assignment, even though a .indp was accidentally created in the interim. Can we simply delete the .indp file or are there other complications that we need to consider?
Thanks.
--Stephen

Excellent, thank you! I just wanted to be certain.
--Stephen

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1. If I export a page and this is checked into PVCS and I forget to export a 'List of Values' shared component. What happens when the page in PVCS is created in another environment (ie Test). I guess the ‘Page Import’ would still succeed but the reference to the ‘List of Values’ would be some large made up number.
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Yes, same case.
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siegfried heintze

Should this work? It prints all the rows.
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('C', 1),
('C', 2),
('D', 1)
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siegfried heintze
Nope you have condition wrong
In my suggestion i've used > and you replaced it with <
it should be this
SELECT *
FROM @Projects p
WHERE
NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM @Projects q
WHERE q.project= p.projects
AND q.Version > p.Version)
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