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GPaul
Helpful | Level 5
18 days ago
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My local files won't open. I can see them in the Dropbox folder, but can't preview them.

Unable to access my files on DropBox! Have had  a DB account shared between a work laptop + my personal laptop (both Win 11 + fairly new) for quite some time. Recently retired-Work laptop went away...
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    GPaul
    9 days ago

    Folks-

    Thought I replied already-but it seems not. Anyway-thanks very much to you all for all the help, it seems the problem has been resolved.

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GPaul
Helpful | Level 5
17 days ago

Walter, Megan, Nancy-

Sorry if I missed anyone-it's ALL WORKING NOW ! Every single file.

Thanks to all of you very much !

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