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My shortcut files in my Dropbox folder on Windows have stopped working
Dropbox Plan
Basic Device
Acer Laptop Operating System/Browser (if using the web)
Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app)
Files kept in Dropbox folder on each PC laptop
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Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the info. The shortcut files should be syncing across as normal, since Dropbox doesn't alter your files in any way.
As it does appear to be for random files from the screenshot you posted, and the target file in the shortcut is missing, you would need to recreate those shortcuts in order for them to sync to your other device correctly.
Hi Jay. Thank for getting back to me. I create the shortcuts on one computer, and then deliver my lessons in a different office. So I need to have confidence in advance that my lessons are going to work. Is there any way that this fault can be diagnosed ant fixed?
- Rich
Super User II
On the ASUS:
The shortcut is at: "C:\Users\User\Dropbox\ ...On the Acer:
The shortcut is at the same locationOut of curiosity, is your user folder on the ASUS really called "User" or are you replacing the actual folder name with User to hide it in this post? If it's not really User, is the folder name EXACTLY the same on the Acer, or are they different?
Yes - on both machines, the folder is called "User". It's because that's what it was traditionally called in early Windows versions, and I have never changed it.
