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JefW
6 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Mac osx - strange extra files appearing when downloading files directly.
Just had a strange issue with some files that I directly downloaded from our DB folders. On the website, I went to one of my shared folders from another team member, and clicked on 2 files (illustra...
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Hey there EstherWilliams, thanks for checking in with us!
I've moved your post to this thread to keep similar questions together, since other users also report this.
As Daphne mentions earlier here, the __MACOSX folder is a hidden folder containing metadata of the files. However, its contents may be read by Windows OS.
You can have a look at what Rich and Labtab mention above, but I also found this thread from Apple's Community where other users talked about this.
I hope this helps to some extent!
EstherWilliams
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Great, thank you, it's somewhere to start.
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