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Explorer | Level 4

3 years ago

Dropbox files Preview pane

From File Manager, when I click on a .pdf, the preview pane shows this:

Index of C:\users\owner\dropbox\ and then lists everything in my dropbox. This shows on everyone's pc I have shared the folders with.

This is only happening in the first two folders that I know of. I have at least 25 folders.

Rich
3 years ago
BeckyO wrote:

This Index shows only and on ALL .pdf's in the first two Dropbox folders, above the .dropbox.cache (you can see to the left)

This isn't a Dropbox issue. Remove the pound sign # from your folder name

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/file-explorer-pdfs-preview-showing-index-of-in/28f0da12-abf1-4f67-9721-d758323818e8

Jay
Dropbox Staff
3 years ago
Hi BeckyO, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

In order to understand exactly what you're seeing, could you attach a screenshot showing this behavior on your device?

Could you also let me know what version of Windows you're running?

This will help me to assist further!
- BeckyO
  Explorer | Level 4
  3 years ago
  Jay, I have windows 10. This Index shows only and on ALL .pdf's in the first two Dropbox folders, above the .dropbox.cache (you can see to the left) Normally I would see the actual .pdf and I still do on all the files after the cache folder.
  - Rich
    Super User II
    3 years ago
    BeckyO wrote:
    
    This Index shows only and on ALL .pdf's in the first two Dropbox folders, above the .dropbox.cache (you can see to the left)
    
    This isn't a Dropbox issue. Remove the pound sign # from your folder name
    
    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/file-explorer-pdfs-preview-showing-index-of-in/28f0da12-abf1-4f67-9721-d758323818e8
essamabdeen
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
- Hannah
  Dropbox Staff
  3 years ago
  Hey essamabdeen, thanks for posting to our Community.
  
  I appreciate the screenshot, but can you please give us some more info here? Are you having some kind of issue?
  
  Is the info in this thread perhaps what you're looking for?
  
  Keep me posted.
- Rich
  Super User II
  3 years ago
  essamabdeen wrote:
  
  Re: Index of C:\Users\Info\dropbox
  
  Remove the # sign from your file/folder names. It's a known Windows issue, unrelated to Dropbox.