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danens1863
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5 years ago
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ERROR: 0X80070780 File cannot be opened by the system

Greetings,   The frequency of the following error is occurring more and more: ERROR: 0X80070780 File cannot be opened by the system   Trying to open several PDFs and it says it is impos...
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  • Larzous's avatar
    Larzous
    3 years ago

    I was able to fix this -- you have to uninstall (reboot) and then re-install dropbox.  That re-installed all the permission stuff and got it working.  Sadly there is no 'repair' option and I just went right for uninstall/reinstall.

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Roger H.15
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Nancy Thanks for your response. It seems to be a problem when I view photos on my PC (Dell Laptop running windows 10 and link to dropbox. When I go into dropbox directly thankfully all photos are there.

 

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any advice or assistance would really be appreciated. Not sure what triggered this corruption, It could have been a recent windows upgrade, as they used to work for many years very nicely.

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Hannah
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4 years ago
Hey Roger H.15, happy Monday!

Are you able to open your files when they are set to local?
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    Roger H.15
    Explorer | Level 4
    4 years ago

    Hi

    Yes but I have to individually click each picture and ask for local. Not sure why this changed but its quite painful. It is a real issue in the file manager - I can see them all if I go into drobox directly.

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      Larzous
      New member | Level 2
      3 years ago

      I'm getting this error.  I'm trying to move an 'online-only' file to a different folder via cut/paste and it isn't working on my laptop.  When I'm at home on my top tier PC I don't have issues, but on this laptop I'm getting errors.  -- Obviously I can download and move the file.  But I don't want to do that on my limited bandwidth when I'm not home.  

       

      Why can I not move files that are 'online-only'?  Is there a setting I'm missing?  All it should be doing is updating metadata on files and tell dropbox to move then.  I can normally do this, but on this PC I can't.

       

      I also want to delete a file, but it won't let me.

       

       

       

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