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Out of nowhere my thumbnails have got little brown boxed in front of them and its saying its unable to open them. This is all files Jpeg, PDF, Excel, word.
All these are saved into our dropbox. 8 other systems linked to the dropbox account don't have a problem and are able to open all the files.
I have read a few threads saying this is a onedrive problem (i don't use onedrive) or the other problem people are saying is Windows 11 (I updated to windows 11 months ago and have had no issues)
This issue has happened overnight.
 
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It looks as it's definitely to do with OneDrive. Have a look at this thread,

www.dropboxforum.com

Orange box icon meaning

What does this orange box icon means? I'm on desktop, windows 11.
www.dropboxforum.com www.dropboxforum.com
 

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    ASUS VivoBook
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    AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
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    ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X509DA (FP5)
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    12GB
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    RX Vega 10 Graphics
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    Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
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    1920x1080@60Hz
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 980 1 TB PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2
    Internet Speed
    25 Mbps
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
  • Operating System
    Windows 11
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    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    ACER NITRO
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800H / 3.2 GHz
    Motherboard
    CZ Scala_CAS (FP6)
    Memory
    16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 SDRAM 3200 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB GDDR6 SDRAM
    Sound Card
    Realtek Audio. NVIDIA High Definition Audio
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    15.6" LED backlight 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 144 Hz
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    1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
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    Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB NVMe M.2
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A couple of posts said, approximately, "I deleted OneDrive and that fixed it". I would like to delete OneDrive, but my attempts haven't worked. Foolishly I let a lot of files pile up there, and then Windows has gotten more aggressive in "deciding" what should be saved in One Drive. I'm blocked when I try to move a large number of files or folders out.
Is there a source of good instructions on deleting OneDrive and moving contents back to local drives?
 

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    Intel NUC 8i7HN
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    Core™ i7-8809G CPU @ 3.10GHz
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    Proprietary Intel
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    1 TB.
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    AMD build in.
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Kupuna said:
A couple of posts said, approximately, "I deleted OneDrive and that fixed it". I would like to delete OneDrive, but my attempts haven't worked. Foolishly I let a lot of files pile up there, and then Windows has gotten more aggressive in "deciding" what should be saved in One Drive. I'm blocked when I try to move a large number of files or folders out.
Is there a source of good instructions on deleting OneDrive and moving contents back to local drives?
Click to expand...
Have you tried to copy and paste the files and folders to the location you want? I stopped using the move files and folders option a long time ago. If something goes wrong, there is a good possibility that the files and folders can get lost.
 

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    ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4/ax
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    16GB (8GB PC4-19200 DDR4 SDRAM x2)
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    Logitech K270
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    Microsoft Edge and Firefox
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    HP Envy x360 15-ds1083cl
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    AMD Ryzen 7 4700U 2.0GHZ
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    16 MB DDR 4-2666
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@Kupuna - You state "I'm blocked when I try to move a large number of files or folders out." but have you tried downloading copies of the files instead of 'moving' them? If the problem is due to the 'large number of files' then try downloading them in batches of whatever works. For example you may be limited to 50 files/download. After downloading copies of all the files you should be able to delete your OneDrive account if that is what you want to do.

Download files from OneDrive to your device - Microsoft Support

Learn how to download files from your OneDrive account to your mobile device.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com
 

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    HP EliteDesk 705 G5
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    AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE
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    DELL Inspiron 15-3576
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    Intel Core i5-8250U
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