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I keep receiving annoying sound notifications from my Win11 Dropbox app.
A few days ago, on my Win 11 PC, I started getting Dropbox notifications multiple times a minute. There were small information boxes that appeared for a while. I think that I changed a setting to s...
Hi Nancy. I think that the issue is fixed! First to answer your questions...
All 15 items in that folder have the name "placeholder", with various extensions. They are all 1 KB in size. I can't say that I am familiar with many of the extensions (.py, .dmg, .aep), and would not have opened all those files at the same date and time. I looked at an older backup of my drive, and that folder, with the strange name ("qe..<many random-like letters>...of") was not there.
I decided to save the folder in a different drive not covered by Dropbox and then delete the folder with the strange name that was within the ".dropbox.cache" folder. All of the files then synced, on both Dropbox and Google Drive. I was able to turn all the sytem notifications for Dropbox back on, with no annoying notifications. I have since power-cycled my PC several times and did a Windows update, and all seems to be fine. So I think that the issue is fixed. I appreciate your time in helping to remedy the issue!
Hi Nancy. I think that the issue is fixed! First to answer your questions...
All 15 items in that folder have the name "placeholder", with various extensions. They are all 1 KB in size. I can't say that I am familiar with many of the extensions (.py, .dmg, .aep), and would not have opened all those files at the same date and time. I looked at an older backup of my drive, and that folder, with the strange name ("qe..<many random-like letters>...of") was not there.
I decided to save the folder in a different drive not covered by Dropbox and then delete the folder with the strange name that was within the ".dropbox.cache" folder. All of the files then synced, on both Dropbox and Google Drive. I was able to turn all the sytem notifications for Dropbox back on, with no annoying notifications. I have since power-cycled my PC several times and did a Windows update, and all seems to be fine. So I think that the issue is fixed. I appreciate your time in helping to remedy the issue!
Megan
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHey MikeInGFD!
Happy to see that your issue is now resolved! In any case, keep an eye out for the next few days to see if the behavior resurfaces.
If you need something else, please let me know and I will be more than happy to help every step of the way.
