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Internazionale
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Temporary files are created for Office files only in the Dropbox folder

good morning, I need your help.   I use dropbox for job, from the account that my boss created for us, we have shared dropbox, so if I change o cancel a file, every people see that changement of ...
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hilwood
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Everytime I saved my word document in dropbox folder. A ~WRDxxxx.TMP file created and will not be auto cleared even i quit the Microsoft office.

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    Hannah
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    2 years ago

    Hey hilwood, thanks for reaching out to us today.

     

    This looks like Word is creating some temporary files in your Dropbox folder.

     

    This isn't specific to Dropbox, you can read more about it here.

     

    If you try Walter's workaround here, I believe you should be good to go.

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