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Bill H.37
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
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 ?
Robert S.
Super User alumni
11 years agoYou can't.
To reiterate, .dropbox files are not intended to be opened by the end user.
Can you outline why you think you need to do this?
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https://www.dropbox.com/help/topics/sharing_files_and_folders
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