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Dirty_White_Hat
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

How to read .dropbox.device file?

From discussions here I see that the `.dropbox.device` is used to remember the settings for a particular drive. I am performing forensics on a recovered USB drive. It has a `.dropbox.device` file on...
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    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi Dirty_White_Hat, currently there isn't any method to format the .dropbox.device file in a readable format for security and privacy purposes.

     

    If you wish, you can suggest this change for others to vote on, so the dev team can look into this in future.

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Dirty_White_Hat
Explorer | Level 4

Oof, well someone on the developer team has the ability to read it. It sounds like you're saying it's not going to be released to the public.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi Dirty_White_Hat, currently there isn't any method to format the .dropbox.device file in a readable format for security and privacy purposes.

 

If you wish, you can suggest this change for others to vote on, so the dev team can look into this in future.

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