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What is .dropbox.device?
Hello!
I found a hidden file called .dropbox.device on a disk partition of one of my internal hard drives.
Can someone please demystify this file for me? I would like to know exactly what...
usrx wrote:
I found a hidden file called .dropbox.device on a disk partition of one of my internal hard drives. Can someone please demystify this file for me?
It's used to identify a device and remember settings you've specified for it, such as for camera uploads, and whether you've told Dropbox to import files or never ask to import again, etc. It's not just for external drives, meaning externally attached, drives. It could appear on any drive you've added to the system. It can be ignored.
This is a 56 byte file. It does not take up much space. But I just hate programs that have this tendency to poop all over the user space. It's normally none of my concern what this file is or what it does, I could not care less, as long as the program works as expected and it keeps its files to itself. But when these mysterious files litter all over my work area that makes it my concern. The user should never be the one having to clean up the mess after programs like this.
