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emphyrio's avatar
emphyrio
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Online vs local storage: how to be sure?

Hello, I would like to know how to be sure that my files are physically present on my local disk drive. I selected the "Make accessible offline" (not sure about the translation, my computer being...
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emphyrio's avatar
emphyrio
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Hello,

I did it.

I still don't have any specific icon on most of the files.

Some of them sometimes appear with an ugly brown box icon, but I don't know why and when.

I still dont' know how to be sure that a specific file is physically on my local drive or not.

What am I supposed to see?

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks, emphyrio.

 

The brown box icons are probably OneDrive related, so can you disable OneDrive, to see if that helps with the Dropbox icons too?

 

If it doesn't, please also follow these steps and let us know how it goes.

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