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tambourineman
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

Unexpected request to give folder permission

All of a sudden (without any known change to my PC or its drives other than coming out of hibernation) I got a box entitled "Give DropBox permission) asking me to give Dropbox permission to my DropBo...
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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
1 month ago

Sounds like Dropbox has done an update to the software and is just setting things back up - possibly moving to the new Cloud location structure. Yes these are legitimate messages so just approve :)

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