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Android 7 Dropbox offline file location?

marky000

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Jan 6, 2012
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Have a tablet running Android 7.

Before it updated to Android 7, the Dropbox app would store offline files under internal storage/android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/scatch.

Now after Android 7, it appears to be storing offline files at com.dropbox.android.filecache/filecache/xxxxxxx(long string of hex numbers and letters). I only know this because when I open an HTML file in dropbox, that's the path that appears in the browser address bar.

Problem is, when I go to this location, I can't find it when I use the My Files app in Android. The filecache folder does not exist.

Now this is a big issue. My client use software that produces a delivery runbook (html file) to throw newspapers. There are some GIF images that need to be stored offline that tap into the html file and thus give graphical directions (turn right, turn left etc). The HTML file is opened by the drivers from within Dropbox.

In the past I solved this issue by copying these GIF images to the scratch folder mentioned above and never had a problem. I need to do this again since the update to Android 7 but I simple cannot find the offline folder location.

I also tried the option of making these GIF files available offline within the Dropbox app but that didn't help.

Please tell me where exactly this offline folder is now located in Android 7. Thank you.
 

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