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CBL70
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Strange folder icon appears on most of my Dropbox files

This filebox is showing up on almost all of our dropbox files.  We recently got a new home pc.  i went through the sync steps for dropbox and the files show up but have this filebox on them.  ...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    cdelosriosru wrote:

    Have you solved the issue? I have the same problem

    It's not a Dropbox icon. It's from Windows 11 and/or OneDrive. You need to make sure that OneDrive isn't trying to sync the same files that Dropbox is syncing.

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cdelosriosru
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Have you solved the issue? I have the same problem

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    Rich
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    3 years ago
    cdelosriosru wrote:

    Have you solved the issue? I have the same problem

    It's not a Dropbox icon. It's from Windows 11 and/or OneDrive. You need to make sure that OneDrive isn't trying to sync the same files that Dropbox is syncing.

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