VLC brings unrequested Dropbox files to my desktop

[Snowdog63]

Hi all.

I have Dropbox on my desktop & work almost completely out of that folder hierarchy. I keep most of the files in the cloud using "smart-sync" so that they don't take up space on my hard drive. If I want to play a file, I call it down from the cloud & once it's finished syncing, I can then play it.

I've noticed that if I double-click on any "local" movie file to play it, I get a Dropbox message at the top of the screen telling me that it's calling down one or other of two particular files.

It's always the same two files & I have played them both in VLC player in the past, but they're not connected to the files I'm currently playing. It's almost as if VLC has them in a "recent" list or something similar & thinks I'm going to need them, but the recent files list is empty.

It's a minor problem, all I have to do is send the aforementioned file back into the cloud, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be happening.

I'd appreciate any insight.

[dfuhrmann]

I'm just purely guessing here, but maybe the old files are still in VLCs playlist, and you instruct VLC to play them as part of the whole playlist. Another possibiliy is that VLC searches in the same directory of the current movie, to try to find external subtitle files.

But I never used the smart-sync feature from dropbox myself, so I do not know.

If you always close VLC after you played one file, and then double click on another movie, VLC should never open old files on its own.