Was this ever answered? Like above, I have multiple clients with shared folders already setup on dropbox and would like to consider putting a file geodatabase in dropbox, (or google drive or Microsoft Onedrive) that could be collaboratively edited.
Has anyone tested this further and resolved the issue with lock files? Also when you save edits to a File GDB, does Dropbox sync the hundreds of random named files inside the GDB correctly, or does that corrupt it?
Thanks
Dan
Probably it is just not possible to share a FGDB over some kind of cloud sharing service (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc...). FGDBs were not made to be handled by these services. When you have a Dropbox folder in your PC, ArcMap will think that just you are editing the FGDB. The other person will have a totally different copy in his PC.
Check out this link:
database replication - Issues Using Dropbox to Sync File GeoDatabases - Geographic Information Syste...