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Marty L's avatar
Marty L
New member | Level 1
11 days ago

Random Dropbox placeholder file on desktop

I'm trying to understand why a file called "Dropbox" just appeared on my iMac desktop.  It looks like a text file, but can't be opened.  Clicking on it results in the following message: "Item Dropbox is used my MacOS and can't be opened."

When I "get info" on the file, it's 780 bytes.

I have been rearranging some dropbox files on this computer, and just installed Dropbox on another computer.  Perhaps it's related to that.  Don't know if it's relevant or not, but all my files are offline as well as online

It appears to be a placeholder but I've been using Dropbox for years, and haven't seen this before.

Any ideas are much appreciated.

Marty

Desktop
Dropbox Plus
Mac
  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    10 days ago

    Hi there, Marty L, thanks for letting us know about this.

    Would you mind sending us a screenshot, so we can have a visual of this file too?

    Also, do you perhaps have enabled hidden files on the computer?

    Thanks in advance.

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