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Bill H.37
New member | Level 1
10 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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Mark
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10 years ago

The file .dropbox is a database file used exclusively by Dropbox to work.

It indicates the folder is shared. If you delete it the folder becomes unshared. 

It does not contain any useable data at all. It has also not been shared with you - it has been created BECAUSE of the share, it is not *THE* share if that makes sense. 

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