Mobile

Share an image from a Dropbox folder into Whatsapp on Galaxy S6 Edge? Anyone managed it before? If so - please share - and please make it EASY for non-techies to be able to use it? Whatsapp is great when initiating a transfer from whatsapp, Dropbox is....... ummm, well, - I think [censored] would be accurate.

Using the iPhone app on a new iPhone 8. I’ll select a group of photos taken/downloaded in a day. Let’s say it’s 50 photos that day. It’ll upload the photos. Then once I go to delete them on my phone I’ll highlight the Group of photos that were uploaded and my camera roll count will tell me it’s actually 65 photos. So 15…

Is there a way to download photos I have stored in a Dropbox folder to my iPhone Photo Stream using the Dropbox iOS app? There should be a way to do this but I can't figure it out. I know there's a "Make Available Offline" feature but that doesn't appear to be it. (I can't figure out what that's for either but that's…

A FB admin advised today that you can no longer add one Dropbox photo at a time onto a Fb post!! Supposedly posting Dropbox photos directly onto FB no longer works!?! Is this true? What about posting Dropbox photos onto eBay??

I have dropbox on my phone and computer. I am not able to open any old videos or current videos. I am getting a message " can't play, choose something else, this item is in a format we don't suport". My old videos were opening up and now they aren't. What has changed and how can I fix this?

Issues since latest ios11.0.1 update on IPad. Error in excel, word, PowerPoint when “Save as” and selecting a Dropbox file. Error message is “Cannot Save File. That file name wont work because it includes invalid characters or it’s too long. Please try a different name. “ Have tried saving the file with the file name A but…

I am not save photo on my phone gallery se help us

Our company is having the issue that on the mobile app (using the ipad or iphone) often times the file name is too long to properly view what we are opening. I want to be able to read the entire file name so I know what i am opening since many of the beginning and last parts of the file are exactly the same for filing…

what is the best way to post from dropbox to instagram?

Thanks to the Dropbox partnership with Microsoft I used to be able to edit and update my Word, Excel, PowerPoint files on my iPad Pro. Since a couple of days the Office apps have been telling me that I need an account with an O365 subscription to edit which wasn't the case before. I have removed and reassociated my…

I need to scan receipt for my business expense and the scanned filed in both png and pdf exceed 400KB. Is there a way to reduce this file size, ideally < 100KB. Or is there a setting to reduce the image size on my phone?

Under activities on my iPad and iPhone- cannot "Open In" other apps such as iBooks.

I have a client who is using Dropbox to share MP3 files of his radio show. When he shares an mp3 file (e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a788cb7ogkmr3tf/blainesworld-20170927.mp3?dl=0 ) the mp3 will play back fine if opened in the Dropbox app. However, if the Dropbox app is not installed and the user selects "direct download"…

Hello using latest iPad app, where can I view offline files?? Would think it would be main tab at the bottom.. all I see is home, files, create, photos, and account. And I don't see it in any of those tabs. On iPhone app there is (was?) offline tab ...?

Is there a way to save multiple images to my camera roll all at one time on my iphone. I am using drop box a lot but have to click on every image and view it individually before I can save it to my camera roll. This is incredibly time consuming. Is there any way using the app or website to just click the folder and move it…

When I attempt to open a word document from the Dropbox App on iPad I receive an error message saying “Cannot Find File. The location changed since you last opened the file. “ (see below) Secondly, I am now unable to save a new word document to the Dropbox. I receive an error message saying “Cannot connect to server. The…

Hello I am having issues using Dropbox with the Files App. * When trying to attach a file to an email I can browse and select the file but when I select the file the round 'downloading' icon appears but it never completes. The square 'cancel' icon at the centre of the circle is unresponsive. * When browsing Dropbox within…

I've just installed Dropbox on my Android phone & there doesn't seem to be a preferences section in settings so I can't see how to set up 'Selective Sync'. Any ideas anyone?

I have my iPhone set to capture HEIC, and Dropbox client set to Save HEIC Photos As JPG. If you take a "Portrait Mode" photo on the iPhone in HEIC, and have Dropbox convert this to JPG, the JPG is unviewable on a Mac running Sierra. Non "Portrait Mode" photos are viewable fine on Sierra, and Portrait Mode photos that can't…

Hello, For viewing a PDF document, entering full-screen mode on the iPad is easy, but I can't figure out how to bring back the side bar with the menus. Thanks for any help!

Hi there, I’m Antonio, a member of the Dropbox Mobile team. We’ve discovered an incompatibility issue between Dropbox’s app and Android OS that led to higher-than-normal battery usage on Android phones. We’ve fixed the issue, and the app should return to normal functionality after restarting it. To restart the app: On your…

In Windows 10, I use Notepad to create .txt files. Can Dropbox/Paper enable me to sync these .txt files with my iPhone SE, and open and edit them and Save/Save As, and even create .txt files, using my iPhone SE? If so, how, exactly? If not, how else can I do this? I don't want to sync Word files or anything complicated,…

I see via Google that many people continue to share having this problem. When I update my offline files, they're usable for about 24 hours and then they are no longer accessible. So for example, if you go camping for the weekend, and have some file you'd like to access, you're out of luck. This problem has been reported by…

Hello, I have been trying to upload files to my dropbox using the Android app for the last few days and I keep getting this error when I click on Upload button: "Unknown Error, please contact customer support.". Anyone knows why is this error appearing and how can I solve it? I have reinstalled the application and it's…

Is there a way to get DropBox on iOS to follow Windows shortcut links to another DropBox file in another folder on DropBox? I am a musician and have a very large number of Word song files in one master folder that I use a number of shortcuts in other folders to access. This way I don't have multiple copies of a song file…

I am logged in to dropbox on both of my computers; I downloaded the Dropbox app from the App Store, and it will not accept those same credentials on my iPhone. Says logon andor password are incorrect. Everything I read says all information should be sharable across devices. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.