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Pistolprinsen
Helpful | Level 5
6 months ago

Stop Dropbox from creating a Desktop.INI file within the "Camera Uploads" folder.

Dropbox keeps creating a 'Desktop.INI' file in the 'Camera Uploads' folder - been trying for a week now to find a way to make it stop. Even if I create a 'Desktop.INI' myself, and make it 'Read-On...
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Rich
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6 months ago
Pistolprinsen wrote:

How do I make Dropbox stop creating 'Desktop.INI' files ?!?

There's no option in Dropbox top do that. Use your operating system to mark it as Read-Only or take away the file permissions.

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