Sorry, forgot to mention that this only seems to happen when I've set the folder up for syncing AND approval of contents. If I turn off the aprroval process on this folder, the syncing works fine. I only get one copy of the original files that I dumped into my folder behind the scenes. If I turn on Approvals, when a file gets dropped into the folder behind the scenes, DMX will check to see if it exists in DMX (which it doesn't), it'll add it to the approval process, BUT if the approving party hasn't approved it yet, then the next time the sync task runs it still doesn't see it in DMX and adds it again to the approving partys screen again....