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Is there a limitation on how many folders deep that dropbox will work? I have a user who moved a word file to a dropbox folder, then when he tried opening it, nothing would happen. It didn't look like word would even try to start. When he copied it to a higher level folder, it worked fine. Any thoughts?
Sounds like he is a Windows user.
So Windows, not Dropbox, has a character limit on it (256 I think....) which starts from C:\ (there is 3 already!) anything over than that and you get issues.
Get him to try and flatten his structure OR just rename things using less characters and it should be fine.
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Sounds like he is a Windows user.
So Windows, not Dropbox, has a character limit on it (256 I think....) which starts from C:\ (there is 3 already!) anything over than that and you get issues.
Get him to try and flatten his structure OR just rename things using less characters and it should be fine.
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I thought that might be it. Thank you.
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