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Berryth
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

What does this yellow square mean

What does the yellow square mean? Can't find it anywhere
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Rich
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2 years ago
Jhousefavitguy wrote:

It maybe a "OneDrive" icon but it is only connected to Dropbox.

That icon has nothing to do with Dropbox. It is entirely a OneDrive or Windows 11 icon.

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Jhousefavitguy
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

So why does Dropbox start to sync when I click on a file that has that icon but files without that icon don't cause that? I just had a user this morning that could not open a file in their Dropbox synced files with this icon. Closed Dropbox and reopened and was able to access. That file does not sync to OneDrive either. I understand it is not a Dropbox icon by why is it there if those files are not connected to OneDrive and the fix is closing/opening Dropbox?

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    Mark
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    2 years ago

    That is a OneDrive icon. So they almost certainly have the files stored in two locations. Once in Dropbox and once in OneDrive. 

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