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ar12
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

How to hide my dropbox cache from view?

Hi, I'm trying to neaten up my Dropbox files, but over the last few weeks I'm suddenly able to see .dropbox.cache in the main dropdown and also a file called 'desktop' in each folder.  It's not the ...
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    Server_Align
    5 years ago

    ar12 wrote:

    Hi Lusil - followed step-by-step but no luck!


    Pffffftt like that was going to do anything!

    Go into your drobox folder in file explorer and select the VIEW menu, if you have no menu press the ALT key to bring it up.

    View > options > change folder and search options > view tab > advanced settings > hidden files and folders > Don't show hidden files, folders or drives. > ok

     

    You might want to also do the APPLY TO FOLDERS button to push that out to all folders.

     

     

     

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