IBooks Author saving issues over Dropbox

I keep my working copy of a book in Dropbox. On one machine only I get a message when I close saying that it can't save because another machine has altered it. But it has not been open on this other machine. I've been using this for several years, but this has just recently begun to happen. Perhaps a factor and perhaps not, but one machine is on Mavericks and one is Mt Lion.

Its likely that when you work in iBA and it auto saves to the file which is the DB folder on your HD.
Do all you items dropped in DP auto update on other devices?    Dropbox should work independantly of a machines OS.
Creating a new account will not resolve anything in my opinbion, DB is a file sharing system and designed to work across multiple platforms.
I think the clue is in "recently began to happen..."    can you think back to what  changed you have made.

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