Windows

I am reinstalling windows 7 and my old dropbox folder is on a seperate storage drive so hasn't been deleted by the instalation process. When I reinstall the dropbox software it wont let me use the old folder but creates a new folder and starts downloading all my files (0.5Tb). Do i have to delete all my files and download…

Couldn't start dropbox. This is usually because of a permissions error. Recent Windows 10 update renamed C:/Users/*** to C:/Users/***.000 and created empty C:/Users/***. Dropbox is looking for C:/Users/***/Dropbox which does not exist. Do I need to do an advanced reinstall? Log file extract: cwd: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32'…

For some reason my drop box files and folders no longer show the "green tick" when synced. If I right click the system tray icon there are only two options Dropbox or uninstal. I can see no way of accessing the gearwheel lots of the replies to this issue suggest. I have installed the latest versio of the app and running…

I fired my laptop up a couple of days ago and I noticed that the dropbox icon in the taskbar was missing. I checked task manager and dropbox is running theres just no icon and if I kill the task and double click on the dropbox exe it loads the app but does not show the Icon so I am unable to check my settings or anything…

Under Processes I get over over 30 instances of the Image Name Dropbox.exe*32, the command line points to AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe*32/restart 444/corruptdb A different image name will have a different number other than the "444" above. Any idea what has happened? . FYI, this is on a laptop personal PC not…

I'm totally shocked that this error is not on forum. May be its too new or people just reinstalle dropbox or something. We have dropbox bussines at company, I have like 120 computers arround the word. We use office 365 with local installed apps (word, excel, etc.) A new bundle of computer arrived so I installing all them…

I have been scouring the internet for how to setup Dropbox to run on Windows Server 2012 R2 as a service. I have seen tutorials for 3rd party applications that will start it on boot and allow sync, but I cannot use any additional software in my company environment. I want Dropbox to be up and syncing 24/7, but this is not…

I have a win10 PC. In an attempt to include my desktop folder (50GB of files) in dropbox, I inadvertently moved the location of the contents of the Desktop to "E:/dropbox" rather than "E:/dropbox/Desktop". Now, my dropbox folder IS my Desktop folder, and vice-versa! Yikes! Now everything in my dropbox folder also appears…

I have a Dropbox Plus plan and am running Windows 10. My PC is out of space and I need to get a lot of the Dropbox files off my PC. I've read Help articles & posts in the community, and nothing is working. I have downloaded and run the Dropbox installer 5 times, and there is still no icon in my system tray. When I click…

The support people that answer the chat have no clue about anything, thy just try to stall by asing some standrad quetsions and then wokring very hard to missunderstand whatever you say. The "real" support (if such exists) is only reachable by email. Dropbox was good, but have gone full soviet. Im also looing for a new…

I have a Dropbox folder on 2 computers. On my Windows 10 machine, it works with File Explorer just like any other folder. But on my Windows 7 machine, File Explorer does not show any subfolders on the left hand side; in fact, there is not even a carot (arrow) to expand the Dropbox folder. When I click on it, I get the…

I have a problem where I upload a good quality PDF to dropbox, and when I come to preview it, the quality is much worse... the resolution is terrible and in some cases I struggle to read the PDF. Downloading and viewing it Adobe Acrobat is really not practical for me... I'm using the dropbox app for windows 10 Any ideas?…

Since the Windows July Update yesterday i get strange icons in my Windows Explorer. (Drive letter with little red X) When i close the Dropbox Service they are gone. Dropbox Version 77.3.125 Windows 10 1903 Build 18362.239

When on my PC, a large amount of my folders/files show. However, there are some that do not appear on my PC. How can I make those folders show on the PC?

I have all my files in Dropbox on my PC. I want to "some" of them, not all of them on my laptop. When I downloaded Dropbox on the laptop, I ended with "all" files on the laptop. Can someone please let me know how to remove those files I don't want on the laptop? Or do I have to start all over? And then if I have to start…

Never had a single problem in years, now i have a strange one. On 3 PC ( WIN 8.1 - 10 - Mac OS ) with latest update and same network. Dropbox is constantly loosing connection ( white icon - black icon ) for all day - same on all pc. It's dropbox related? The 3 PC has 3 different accounts for dropbox. I have 3 PRO plan…

I have just set up drop box on my pc but a couple of my folders are not syncing through and I can not work out why. It has happened on my laptop as well. Can any one help. I can see it when I log in through the internet explorer or chrome. Thanks Cara

Hi Guys, we have a business DB account, and more frequently we are finding files are turning into .iCloud files, is there a way we can stop this happening and also the files that are showing as iCloud files/documents how do we open them especially if we are operating PC's and not mac's. Thanks in advance for any help as…

I created a folder and subsequently created some files in a Dropbox folder from a laptop here in the office. This folder fails to show up in Windows File Explorer on another computer in the office. I can see the folder from the Dropbox App and tell it to open the files with the software on this computer, but I cannot see…