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S38
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago

PDF files not syncing to desktop, but all other filestypes do sync in the same folder

I did selective sync on a folder that contains several folders. But one of them is not syncing its pdf files and only the pdfs, other filetypes did sync. I have access to these files via browser, so...
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    S38
    5 months ago

    Ah I figured it out, the files didn't sync because they had an asterisk character in their names.

    All good now

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S38
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago

Ah I figured it out, the files didn't sync because they had an asterisk character in their names.

All good now

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