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My dropbox is constantly adding, deleting, re-adding, re-deleting (etc) a file called _fIlE_!.tmp. It is also doing all sorts of other strange actions every few seconds, like "You renamed the file metadata.json.temp to metadata.json"
Any ideas what is causing this?
I have tried restarting my PC, and also unlinking/relinking Dropbox to my PC.
Thanks for suggestions!
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Thanks this is very helpful.
I'm not doing any coding, and I don't think I would have anything like my browser cache in the Dropbox folder. I only have a small number of specific folders in the Dropbox folder.
I do also use Dropbox with WD Backup, so maybe it is this backup that is creating/deleting temporary files?
How do I find out exactly where the recently added/deleted files are located? When I click through to the Events page on dropbox, it only gives the name of the file, not the full file location. And clicking on the file just downloads it, but doesn't show the location.
Thanks again,
Andy
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hi,
Every time I download a file from my Gmail in chrome browser, I get this Alert message: " Remove *.temp file from your Dropbox account and all devices?
My default is placing the file in downloads of my computer. If I choose the option he asks me before downloading the file, I get this Alert. It seems that he automatically creates a temp file in Dropbox by default. But I do not know where to change this.
Thank you for your help.
Hi there @pattyud59, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
May I ask if you've enabled the Dropbox Backup feature for your computer's Downloads folder?
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