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Art G.7's avatar
Art G.7
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Why do I have duplicate file names prepended with "._" ?

In all or most of my folders, my file names are duplicated but with a period-underscore "._" appearing before each duplicate.  The duplicates don't open to anything except "This file type can't be vi...
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Philipp Z.2's avatar
Philipp Z.2
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Thanks Robert -- I didn't know that network volumes weren't supported. Good to know. And Art -- these things scare me big time because 1) I don't want double the amount of space on my dropbox and b) no one is going to help me if I delete stuff and things get lost forever... but now that I know that network volumes are not supported, I will have to do it differently or cancel my business account. I'll keep testing a bit before I do that though because I really love dropbox.

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