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Reasons why Dropbox could be accessing files it should not be accessing

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Mar 15, 20261549 views
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I was just using SysInternals to track down a problem and found accesing files outside of the Dropbox folder I have configured. My Dropbox location is at I see the following in a ProcMon log I was studying: Does anyone have an idea why is accessing files outside of the configured Dropbox directroy?…

Error Output

QueryOpen \\host\share\users\pats\somedir\myfile.7z

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I have encountered the same problem. Here is the answer by Dropbox support: we use an Explorer dll ( and ) to draw syncing icons on files and present context menus when you right click. When you open an Explorer window, we need to check if those fil…

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