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Can’t select and export multiple files in the Dropbox app?
Hey everyone, Just recently switched to iPhone and I’m a little appalled at how hard it is to use the Dropbox app. As far as I can tell, there is no way to select all files at once in a folder (not even by dragging to select or anything)? Right now I am trying to use Dropbox to move all my photos from my android phone to…
File names abbreviated in landscape mode
Hi, my file names remain abbreviated to portrait mode width even when I turn my phone to landscape mode. Is this a know bug. Help, this is a major, major pain. Thanks. Dave
Links won’t open in the Dropbox app
When I receive a Dropbox link through another app, e.g. Messenger, the “Get the App” or “Open in App” button appears, but if I tap it the App Store opens instead. There’s currently no way for me to open the link in the app directly. I tried re-installing but that didn’t help. I’m using an iPhone SE2.
Scans on v334.2 iOS, can’t limit size
When scanning a document from my phone, there was a setting to reduce the file size. I keep copious records and would prefer not to save a 6mb text document. Is the setting buried somewhere?
Export Option Unavailable
No Export Option Hi. Up until a week ago, I always had the 'Export' option when clicking on the ... ellipse at top right hand corner of an opened Dropbox file on my iPad and iPhone. I like to export files to iBooks so I can read then from either device. There is simply no 'Export' option able to seen or selected anymore. I…
Enable iOS Markup toolset capability from a PDF loaded from Dropbox
I’m a mature student who’s gone back to school to advance my career capacity. I’ve meticulously set up Dropbox folder structures to sort and hold my course information assets such as PDFs. While in class the other day on my iPad Pro, I went to pull up a PDF in Dropbox, to annotate. I noticed my options were to use the…
Excel worksheet not displaying correctly.
Hello I’m using Dropbox app version 334.2.2 on an IPad eith IOS 16.5.1 Since 2 weeks ago when selecting an Excel file from the Dropbox home page, I notice the “Open” button is missing, and the formatting of the Excel sheet is not correct (ghost links to create a calendar event are embedded in random cells, fonts in other…
Adding Dropbox to my files manually, using Android.
I wanted to add a network storage such as this app i.e., Dropbox with my samsung my files in my Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE. For this I would require certain details. I have searched here and there but failed. Please help me with this as this would ease my work as a student. Details required are:
Android: auto-update version of the opened file
Hi the community, I use Samsung tablets (Android) in our bulldozers on which we've got Dropbox installed. On them, our workers received a secured Excel file updated each time a truck is incoming or outgoing of our yard. By the past, when the file was opened and the device was in sleep mode, we just have to wake the device…
Larger thumbnails for mobile.
Option for larger thumbnails. Trying to find a picture using a phone is ridiculously difficult. I don’t care about the details of a file, I want to see the picture.
Dropbox Fax App
We either need a native Dropbox Fax app, or the developers need to make the Dropbox Fax website responsive to mobile devices.
Sync problems on Android
I'm having trouble with a file in my Dropbox which I frequently amend. If I download it to my WIN10 account there is no problem - the latest version is brought up, and if I amend it the latest version is saved. If I look on my Android system, the file list shows correctly that the file was updated a couple of days ago, but…
iOS Siri Shortcuts, Using “Get File” With Dropbox
I’m trying to use Siri Shortcuts on iOS 12 to share photos using a shared Dropbox folder. I’ve written a workflow that successfully saves selected photos from the iOS Photos app (or elsewhere) to a specific folder in Dropbox. The problem I’m running into is on the other end when I attempt to write a workflow that selects…
Dropbox access revoked, re-authenticate
Hi, I use an app on my Android tablet which allows me to import from Dropbox to upload files. I have done this for years several times, but suddenly when I attempt to do this I get an error "Dropbox access revoked, please re-authenticate." What is going on? Why has it been revoked? How do I re-authenticate? What is…
Viewing spreadsheets on iOS. Can't zoom out.
With the recent update, I can’t zoom out making it difficult to view excel spreadsheets on iOS. Is there something I can do to zoom out and view easier?
Outlook Emails
I am new to Dropbox. I have uploaded Outlook Emails to Dropbox. I can open them on my windows PC, but I cannot open them on my Galaxy Android. The "Open with..." window gives me only the File Commander and OfficeSuite option. But both dont work, if I want to view outlook emails. Any recommendation for me what I can do?
How to import passwords on Android?
I successfully uploaded all my Chrome passwords to my Windows PC. But, I installed Passwords on my Android phone and there is no Import in Settings, only Export. Is this a limitation on Basic users? Amy has published info that Basic users will enjoy full functionality of Passwords...did I misread her post? Or will Sync…
Issue syncing from Galaxy phone
I've got a very troubling discovery. I got DropBox to save photos and downloads of pictures from FaceBook, Instagram, email and texts. Earlier today, I saved 3 pictures my daughter-in-law sent via SMS of my granddaughters. I have a Samsung Galaxy s22+. The pictures show up in the "pictures" application on the phone, but…
Syncing PC with Android? Please help. Don't know what I'm doing.
I read everything about the pics that I uploaded to the Dropbox cloud from my PC and be able to see them using the Dropbox app I downloaded to my Android, but can't get anywhere. Does this sentence make sense?
Can’t view files without wifi
Why can’t I view files while I doesn’t have wifi? I have checked the settings in the app and marked the ”use mobile data” buttom but it didn’t worked.
Can't open xlsx files on my mobile device
Recently (maybe the last month to month and a half) I have been unable to open Excel files on my Mobile device. Android S21 Plus Prior to that I could open and edit them just fine. When I try to open an xlxs file, I get the message: File type not supported Couldn't download file. Please try open in another app. Any ideas…
How to start over with my Dropbox account, and delete everything?
Dear Community I have some problems with syncronisation and I want to start my account "from scratch",meaning I want to keep my account but delete all files and start all over with syncing from my PC. Somewhat like getting your phone back to factory settings. What do I do? I have all my files backed up on a 5 TB external…
Auto sync from different devices save in same folder
I have iPhone and iPad. Both of them saved photos to same folder and my photos are mixed. How I can set different auto sync folder to different devices? I already try: stop syncing, pushing some fotos to different folder, auto syncing window pop-up, starting auto sync with hope it will start working based on different…
iOS App constantly logging me out
I recently started using Dropbox for file storage on my iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) both previously on iOS 15 and now on iOS 16. I upload a fair amount of video and photo content and I've noticed the app logs me out unexpectedly in the middle of file uploads all the time. If I'm actively uploading frequently it happens…
VIBRATE on video play/pause/scrub after update.
Every single time I play/pause or scrub on a video, the app sends a vibrate "haptic feedback" when I never asked for this. It happened during the last auto-update when the user interface changed as well. I'm tired of it and looked in the mobile app settings, notifications, within the website settings and on my phone as…
Outlook App on IPhone keeps disconnecting
Since a 2023 outlook app update was completed every time I go to attached a file to a message from Dropbox within the outlook app it shows no files available. Only fix thus far is to leave the message entirely and re sign in to link Dropbox to Outlook. This is grossly inefficient.. any solutions would be great!
Rename new file if a file with the same name already exists.
When I try to save a file with a name already taken by another file can the first file be automatically renamed rather than replacing the already existing one
Microsoft 365 can't save edits on files from Dropbox - Android
I can't edit excel files stored on Dropbox from my Android device. instead of saving the edits, a new file gets created every time I save the edited file. this is what happens: 1) I open Dropbox app and navigate to a folder with Excel file ABC.xlsx in it 2) I click (touch!) the file, then it gets opened in Dropbox in…
Read .msg files on Android
Apparently, It is not currently possible to read copies of .msg files from Outlook that are stored in Dropbox when there is an attempt to view them in the Dropbox app on an Android phone. This is enormously inconvenient. They are visible in Dropbox on a computer. I don't have a tablet so I know if the problem exists in…
I no longer have the option to scan a picture on my mobile.
The option to scan a photo from my camera roll is not there today(5/24). I used that feature yesterday(5/23) and I use that regularly to make pdf documents from pictures to save as receipts that I’m sent. Please tell me it’s coming back or I will have to find another program to use.

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