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Grl4Sprt
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9 months ago

"Folder is in use" error when trying to move a folder out of the Dropbox folder

I moved a LARGE file to my Dropbox so my boss could work from it for the weekend - soon learned this was a bad idea because of how long it took to upload.  Now, I would like to move it back to just m...
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Grl4Sprt
New member | Level 1
9 months ago

I don't know what the 3rd party app would be.  Do you have any common ones that seem to cause problems?  I will restart again, but have done multiple times.

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Nancy
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9 months ago

Hey Grl4Sprt! If you quit the Dropbox app and the issue persisted, then I also believe that this has to do with a third-party app.

However, I’m afraid we can’t provide much info on that; you’ll need to check what apps are running in the background when you receive this error message.

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