Re: What does this yellow square mean

Berryth · ‎03-07-2022

What does the yellow square mean?

Can't find it anywhere

What does it mean?

Rich · ‎03-07-2022

@Berryth wrote:

What does the yellow square mean?

That's not a Dropbox icon. I believe it's from OneDrive.

Megan · ‎03-07-2022

Hey @Berryth, welcome to our Community!

Rich is absolutely correct here; this isn't one of our icons.

If you want to find out more in regards to the Dropbox icons, you can have a look into this article.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Berryth · ‎03-07-2022

Hi,

I posted here because it is on almost all files and many folders within the dropbox folder.

Haven't seen it on any other syncing service like OneDrive or GDrive.

/Berry

Elsje Joubert · ‎09-14-2023

I also got them - can anyone help? This is in Dropbox for sure!

Walter · ‎09-14-2023

Hey @Elsje Joubert, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

I just wanted to clarify that these icons are not coming from Dropbox, but probably from One Drive.

You can have a look at this page for more information.

Hope this helps!

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Dallexx

I have exactly the same question. The ikon only appears in the Dropbox and it disappear when I open the file!

Jay

Hi @Dallexx, do you have OneDrive installed on your machine? If you quit that app temporarily, do those yellow icons go away, or change to another icon?

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Jhousefavitguy

I know this is an old thread and there is a lot of information about this out there but here is what I know. It maybe a "OneDrive" icon but it is only connected to Dropbox. I have Dropbox setup along with OneDrive. Dropbox is located in the root of my C drive so OneDrive is NOT syncing that path. OneDrive only syncs Docs, Desktop,Photos. When I click on a file with this icon I can actively see Dropbox syncing when the file opens. From my experience, if you can not open the file with this icon, make sure Dropbox is started and or log out and back in to the Dropbox app. This has fixed this issue with several of my users.

Rich

@Jhousefavitguy wrote:

It maybe a "OneDrive" icon but it is only connected to Dropbox.

That icon has nothing to do with Dropbox. It is entirely a OneDrive or Windows 11 icon.