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jeffinbville
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

Windows (10) keeps telling me that Dropbox wants to change files on my machine

Windows (10) keeps telling me that Dropbox wants to change files on my machine. I get the Account Protection security pop-up window multiple times a day and sometimes there'll be dozens of them in th...
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Walter
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Hey jeffinbville, could you try the offline installer from this page directly and let us know how it goes?

 

Also, make sure to install it with admin privileges as outlined here. 

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jeffinbville
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

I'm sorry, this isn't 1995 when uninstall/reinstall was all the rage. Besides, if you follow the thread it's been done. There's a setting in DropBox that changes something on my machine (most likely a log file or similar) that sets off an alarm that neither of my other two cloud-storage programs do. Now, it hasn't happened in 12 hours so there's hope. But if it continues on I'll need to go back to using Google Drive, and I'm okay with that, it's just not a preference to be with Google as much as I am.

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