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Joeb1
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

directory name is invalid

I recently moved the location of my Dropbox. It is on the same drive only instead of the default path I move it to the root of the drive. Now my shortcuts on my desktop do not work. I get the error "...
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    Joeb1
    4 years ago

    Walter,

    Not sure what happened. It went away.  I was playing with the file I neded in Dropbox so maybe I saved it and that fixed it. All the shortcuts and files got fixed. Strange.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Joe

Joeb1's avatar
Joeb1
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Walter,

Not sure what happened. It went away.  I was playing with the file I neded in Dropbox so maybe I saved it and that fixed it. All the shortcuts and files got fixed. Strange.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

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