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danens1863
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

ERROR: 0X80070780 File cannot be opened by the system

Greetings,   The frequency of the following error is occurring more and more: ERROR: 0X80070780 File cannot be opened by the system   Trying to open several PDFs and it says it is impos...
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  • Larzous's avatar
    Larzous
    2 years ago

    I was able to fix this -- you have to uninstall (reboot) and then re-install dropbox.  That re-installed all the permission stuff and got it working.  Sadly there is no 'repair' option and I just went right for uninstall/reinstall.

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anonymous

I've recently had the same issue and fully agree with Здравко.

To make sure that I can open an online only file I have to first set it to be "Make Available Offline". The type of files affected were JPG's and Zip's - compressed data.

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Larzous
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I was able to fix this -- you have to uninstall (reboot) and then re-install dropbox.  That re-installed all the permission stuff and got it working.  Sadly there is no 'repair' option and I just went right for uninstall/reinstall.

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