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Rich
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11 months ago

Re: There's a .canary file causing syncing issues on my Dropbox app.

Jay wrote:

are you able to ignore that file in your backup software?

Ultimately you should be ignoring the entire .dropbox.cache folder. There's no reason to back it up at all.

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