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jessifishman
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Files online but not in Windows explorer

I have seen that this was an issue in the past, but the solutions are now out of date, so I am hoping someone can help me with this. Sometimes files that I know are in Dropbox, and that appear in D...
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Jay
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3 years ago
If you click the Dropbox icon in the system tray, have you tried searching for the file from there by clicking the magnifying glass icon?
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jessifishman
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I can try that next time it happens, but since I'm using File Explorer for everything else Dropbox-related, I would hope that the searches would work there. 

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