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Paul D.4
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

Dropbox icon with checkbox white interior remains a mystery.

Megan from the DropBox staff offered some help to an earlier post entitled "Dropbox icon  and folder status on a Mac” but despite my replies, the discussion went dead seven days ago. I still have out...
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Paul D.4's avatar
Paul D.4
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

 Regarding your second link… I'm still a little fuzzy as to the full meaning of the "Dropbox desktop app" in my mind, it has two manifestations. It's an application in the application folder that is set to launch at start up and perform syncing on the designated folder and also is represented as an icon on the upper right finder menu near the Time Machine icon where I can set preferences and adjust its behavior, does it have any other meanings or manifestations?

"You manually change the folder’s modified date on the Dropbox desktop app"

Secondly, just curious how would one change the modify date using the dropbox desktop app?

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