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Why does Dropbox keep messing with my desktop shortcut? (Win 10)
If I create a desktop shortcut to, say, "C:\Users\Paul\Dropbox\Work stuff\", then it stays like that, and it works the way I want: I click on it, and it QUICKLY opens the local folder (which is actua...
Paul_Blitz wrote:
However, after a while (I'm thinking it may include a logout / login, so dropbox gets started up again) it changes that link to be {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /home}.... which is very SLOW to open!
Don't call the shortcut Dropbox. Call it My Dropbox or something else and it will be left alone. Dropbox will always update the desktop shortcut called Dropbox. It gets changed to what it originally was, which is meant to launch the Dropbox application if it's not already running, and then open the Dropbox folder.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Paul_Blitz wrote:
However, after a while (I'm thinking it may include a logout / login, so dropbox gets started up again) it changes that link to be {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /home}.... which is very SLOW to open!
Don't call the shortcut Dropbox. Call it My Dropbox or something else and it will be left alone. Dropbox will always update the desktop shortcut called Dropbox. It gets changed to what it originally was, which is meant to launch the Dropbox application if it's not already running, and then open the Dropbox folder.
Ah, another of those "well documented features" eh? Thank you, that makes sense, and your solution works nicely!
