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Dave_Rado
Collaborator | Level 10
5 months ago

I don't understand the new Dropbox for Windows sync icons

My installation of Dropbox for Windows has just updated and I now see a sync status icon I've never seen before against most of my files, which looks like this. The sync icon I've always seen befor...
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Dave_Rado
Collaborator | Level 10
5 months ago

Hi Roga41

I linked to that page in my original post and wrote:

The Dropbox help page doesn't explain it in terms I can understand. For the former icon it says it means "that a file was opened (directly or with a third-party application) and synced", whereas for the lattter it says it "means your file is synced and available offline". 

But all my Dropbox files have been opened at some stage and all of them have been synced, so I don't understand why some of my files have one of the above icons against them while others have the other, or what the difference between them is.

I thought I'd also made it clear in my original post that none of my files have ever been online-only.

Dave 

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