Windows 10: I also got this brown box icon of my files in dropbox with my win11 computer

and it affect the sync of dropbox files,and i have tried many methods but both of them just doesn't work,unless uninstall the onedrive

:)

 

Files have a brown box on their icon and dont open in Windows 11

It wasn’t running in the background like usual. Files weren’t being synced. I doubled-clicked on my desktop icon to start the application. Then the little icon showed up in the system tray (bottom right of desktop) where I could right-click and open Dropbox app settings. My files started syncing again and the brown boxes were replaced by the Dropbox icons.

 

Files have a brown box on their icon and dont open in Windows 11

I have this problem too and can't find a solution.

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I went to go click on the right-click the dropbox icon in the system tray to check my sync settings, and the icon wasn't there. I realized that dropbox wasn't "running". I started up dropbox, and once it started running, the brown box was replaced by the appropriate dropbox sync icon (grey cloud, closed green circle+white check, open green circle+green check), and I was able to access those files again. I hope this works for you and everyone else who is having this issue because it was driving me crazy that there were absolutely no posted resolutions to the issue anywhere online.

This is EXACTLY what the problem is. It's a Dropbox issue, as far as it seems. Once I fired up Dropbox, my ugly brown file box overlay disappeared and was replaced with a cloud. All of my files can now be opened just fine.

Thanks for the help, everyone!!

 

Files have a brown box on their icon and dont open in Windows 11

I have this problem too and can't find a solution.

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I went to go click on the right-click the dropbox icon in the system tray to check my sync settings, and the icon wasn't there. I realized that dropbox wasn't "running". I started up dropbox, and once it started running, the brown box was replaced by the appropriate dropbox sync icon (grey cloud, closed green circle+white check, open green circle+green check), and I was able to access those files again. I hope this works for you and everyone else who is having this issue because it was driving me crazy that there were absolutely no posted resolutions to the issue anywhere online.