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Yoav K.'s avatar
Yoav K.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

can't sync permission denied. deleting file

hi. i get "can't sync permission denied" message. so never mind, i just want to get reed of this file now. how do i discard it and stop dropbox from keep doing it?
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Krishan P.'s avatar
Krishan P.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

My dropbox is not syncing a file because it says "access denied" I am on windows and the page that said to run a bunch of windows commands in the command prompt did nothing.?

Edit. It seems the files in question were not closed properly thus windows locked the file because it thought it had been trying to save it for the last 2 days.
Simply opening and resaving each file solved this for me

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