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insertnamehere
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
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What is this UFO icon on some of Dropbox files online?

There is a UFO symbol next to one of my uploaded files, does anyone know what that means?
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    8 years ago
    Hi there, the UFO generally means it’s a file without an extension at the end, so Dropbox doesn’t know what filetype it is, such as ‘test’ instead of test.jpg, test.docx, test.pdf, and so on.
     
    If it’s supposed to have a filetype, rename the file with the extension and it should show a proper icon instead.
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Jeffg2
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

I have the flying saucer on alot of files with extensitons. Some of them was when I switched from paperport to File Center. I believe I can just delete them. How do you delete multiple files at once instead of 1 at a time. 

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    Jay
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    6 years ago

    Hi Jeffg2, while I’m not familiar with the file types used by Paperport or File Center, these files could be important to the functioning of File Center, so I’d recommend making a copy of them just in case.

    On the site, you can click the checkboxes for multiple files on the left of them, and then on the right, click the delete button from the ellipsis (
) button.

    Hope this helps out!

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