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Old Laptop with Old Dropbox-- how do I transfer files?

Hello Hive Mind! I recently fired up my old laptop (OSX 10.9.5, late 2009) and I cannot transfer files off of it. I have tried gmail, messages, airdrop, apple mail application, old flash drive... the works. Then I noticed that I had an Dropbox icon. It has Dropbox v1.1.35 and had my hotmail email as the account. It looks like it is working on the old laptop, and I uploaded a 253 KB .png file.

However, when I go to my current laptop, and log into the browser Dropbox, it appears that I had to make an account with the same hotmail address. And I cannot find my files in the browser Dropbox.

1) Is v1.1.35 hopelessly outdated and should I just give up?

2) Do you have any suggestions about how to transfer these files off of my old machine?

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Mark

@zoeij wrote:
1) Is v1.1.35 hopelessly outdated and should I just give up?

2) Do you have any suggestions about how to transfer these files off of my old machine?

Wowser, yes it is!! We are currently on 204.4.5420 and versions much before that are blocked from accessing the cloud sync tools.

From a practical point of view can you download Chrome and upload to Dropbox via the website?

zoeij

Finally circling back to this and fired up the old laptop again.

I don't have Chrome on it, but I do have Firefox. Is there a Dropbox advantage to Chrome?

On Firefox, I can go to the Dropbox website, but then when I navigate to "Log In", I get a blank screen. I just refreshed Firefox, and still no dice.

Mark

Have you made sure they are using recent updates of Chrome and/or FireFox?

If they are old it may not work correctly due to security risks.