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leen27
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

I accidentally dragged the Dropbox icon into Chrome, are my files now public?

I have accidentally dragged my dropbox icon onto google chrome, it created an index(Links) on chrome webpage. Are my files public?   I deleted the browser history in the hopes the index (Links) w...
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    leen27
    5 years ago

     

    "Accidental drag and drop files on webpage 
    Recently I have accidentally drag and drop my files on a webpage on chrome. It redirects me to the file as if the browser just open the file. The url tells me that it is a local file. Will there be any security breach? For instance, will the site owners have access to my files? Or the directory and filenames? " 
     
    The message above was posted on google chrome help by "Accidental Ben" 
     
    This is basically what happened, however there are no posts with solutions there. 
     
    I thought I would share it here, maybe my message was vague. If anyone could shed some light that would be appreciated.
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Daphne
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Hey leen27, thanks for posting!

 

This wouldn't share your files from your Dropbox account, you would need to either create a shared link, or share a folder for this to happen.

 

It seems that it just caused a file path to be saved in Chrome like a bookmark. If it's a file path for a file, then it would only work on this computer where the file is stored.

 

I can suggest simply deleting the link that was created in Chrome.

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

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leen27
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Hi Daphne 

 

Thank you for clarifiying.

 

I have done so.

Thank you very much for your help.

 

Have a great day.

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