The Apple file system uses those files for its own reason. Just because you can see them in another system does not mean they need to go away. It may be time to find some deep technical dissertation on file systems but I must fit this in a few sentences here.
The com.dropbox.attributes files were expected and all that I see here is maybe the user needs to let it slide a bit. There are some that get a little OCD on files and blow up at others or their system.
Yes, I expected them to re-appear.
Bob
I have a data partition between OS X Mavericks and Windows 7 Boot Camp. I have my Dropbox folder in the partition. I have tried using it in the past formatted as exfat. This was unsatisfactory in that it would not stay indexed in OS X, and there were other issues.
I have now formatted the Data partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then on Windows 7 I have a trial version of Paragon HFS+ for Windows installed.
Here is my issue. OS X creates a bunch of files in Dropbox ending in com.dropbox.attributes. There is at least one of these almost for every file in Dropbox. From OS X these do not sync to the Dropbox server and are hidden. However, in Windows they are visible and sync to the Dropbox server.
I would like to do two things:
1. Hide them in Windows 7
2. Prevent them from syncing to the Dropbox server in Windows 7
(By the way, I have already tried running a command in Windows that hides all of these files. It only worked temporarily. As soon as Dropbox was back up and running they re-appeared.)
Please let me know if you need any more information or clarification.
Much thanks in advance for any input!

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