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hvitale
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6 months ago

My Dropbox files are trying to sync with OneDrive so I cannot open these on my laptop. What do I do?

My Dropbox files are trying to sync with OneDrive instead so I cannot open these on my laptop, how do I stop this
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hvitale
New member | Level 2
6 months ago
If there were multiple users on the Dropbox would this happen to everyone?
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    Mark
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    6 months ago

    If it is a shared folder and they have tried to double sync, yes, as Dropbox would sync those changes. 

     

    By that I mean if one user has moved their Dropbox into a OneDrive folder. 

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