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Algorithm's avatar
Algorithm
Explorer | Level 4
5 months ago

I see an error on the desktop app that some files can't be synced due to being used by another app

Hello not sure if it's the latest update causing this, but I have troubles where dropbox wont sync some files saying they are used by another application which is not, and this on all my computers. W...
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Walter's avatar
Walter
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Does rebooting your computer or quitting and relaunching the Dropbox desktop app help improves matters at all Algorithm?

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Algorithm
Explorer | Level 4
5 months ago

Not helping unfortunatelly, did you change anything about files "in cache" or something like that on the two latest update ?

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