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Orange box icon meaning
What does this orange box icon means? I'm on desktop, windows 11.
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Hi Nancy, I finally worked it out. It is definitely a Onedrive icon. Disabling Onedrive was not enough to get rid of the icon on the files. I had to actually uninstall it and do a restart. The icon on my files is now gone.
Just a note to anyone that is doing this to be aware that this will remove your Onedrive files from your computer but it is still available in the cloud. Maybe copy the files first just to be safe.
Thank you for trying to assist me with this 😀
Nancy
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FYI uninstalling and deleting One Drive completely does not prevent this icon from continuing to show up. It still puts itself on files i've recently accessed, especially image files (jpg, png, etc...). It doesn't affect the file from being opened, but I do have a ton of issues with image thumbnails not showing up, especially in the camera uploads folder.
I'm on Windows 11. It makes me think WIndows 11 still grabs your files somehow, regardless of location and syncs them with one drive, even after One Drive completely deleted. Sketchy stuff.
I read several of the entries, trying to get rid of the file box on all my dropbox files, because it's super annoying that you can't open your files unless you're online. I didn't see the solution, but I found one.
If the dropbox logo is in the bottom right corner near the time (Windows) right click it, then when the pop up comes up click on your initials in the top right corner, a drop down box will open and click on preferences. A new window will pop up for dropbox preferences, click on the sync tab. There is a section that says "save hard drive space automatically" yes or no. I had no checked, which is what you want, but then there is a drop down selection to the right that allows you to choose "available offline" or "online-only" choose available offline. I had online-only selected and as soon as I switched it to available offline all the little boxes went away.
There maybe another way to get to dropbox preferences, above is how I found it.
I've uninstalled OneDrive and the briefcase icons remain. I'm also not getting any Dropbox options when I right-click a folder or file. I'm unable to request files for keeping offline, and all other context menu options are missing.
- Mark
Super User II
Nickelplate wrote:
I've uninstalled OneDrive and the briefcase icons remain. I'm also not getting any Dropbox options when I right-click a folder or file. I'm unable to request files for keeping offline, and all other context menu options are missing.
The icon is from OneDrive, so, if its still there its an issue with OneDrive's uninstall from the system.
In terms of context menus that USUALLY means Dropbox isn't installed OR it isn't running.
Try to redownload from www.dropbox.com/downloading
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