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SistemasMVH1
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4 years ago
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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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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    rdb0122 wrote:

    So this isn't just an Excel issue, ... Dropbox needs to look into this though ...

    It's not a Dropbox icon. It's from OneDrive. You likely have OneDrive and Dropbox trying to sync the same data, which will never work correctly.

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Nancy
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4 years ago

I’m really glad to hear you were able to sort this out!  

 

If you need something else, we’re here for you.

 

Have a great rest of your week!

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thartgrove
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

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.

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