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Bill H.37
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

opening a .dropbox file

I have received a file  with a .dropbox association. I opened it with wordpad and got  ------   {"tag": "dropbox", "ns": 73397816   what do I do with this now to access the file ?
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Robert S.
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11 years ago

what do I do with this now to access the file ?

You don't.

They aren't intended to be opened by the end user, in fact they shouldn't even be visible, .dropbox files are normally hidden system files which enable shared folders to work. 

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