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Mani26750
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4 years ago
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What is the brown box icon on the left bottom corner of my files when using the desktop app?

Hello,   On several files, I have a brown icons in left bottom corner of my files.(see below)   in fact, in the same folder, there are green logos on fils but sometime there are brown logo ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    The brown logo isnt a Dropbox one. My guess is you've enabled the Briefcase function in Windows: https://www.techmesto.com/how-to-enable-briefcase-feature-in-windows-10

     

    This is not supported in Dropbox and Dropbox can only sync/use/work with files that are in its own directory. So to use them you need to move the files directly in to Dropbox rather than just linked. 

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Rich
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4 years ago
Mani26750 wrote:

On several files, I have a brown icons in left bottom corner of my files.(see below)

Mark is correct; the box icon overlay isn't part of Dropbox. It's part of OneDrive, and it's interfering with your Dropbox. You'll need to disable OneDrive or find a way to get it to stop syncing your Dropbox as well.

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