Richard P. Super User Alumni

Juan, its working fine, and this thread is not about whether Dropbox is working or not. Liss, if you are using the Dropbox app (installed from the MS Windows Store) then there is no option to work offline, it simply won't work off line. If you installed Dropbox via the Dropbox website, then as Rich says, your files will be…

Once again, the dialog is NOT being faked - that claim has been debunked a lot in the past week or so since the claim was made, its a perfectly normal OSX privilege raising authentication dialog. The "fake dialog" determination was based on the fact that some of the text is misaligned and its general look and feel, but you…

You expect support to hand craft a reply to each of the thousands of *extra* tickets this issue caused to be raised, rather than helping people with actual problems? Support is there for support, not for Public Relations comments. You wanted a PR reply, not support.

That's how its intended to work.

Mark, can you post a screenshot of the following web page: https://www.dropbox.com/account#personal That will tell us whats going on.

The sub pages loaded into your frames (which you really really should not use by the way) are not being served with a valid content type, so the browser is interpreting them as text files. index.html: list.htm: Try renaming your .htm files to .html (remembering to update the index.html frames definition).

Basic users will see this feature discontinued in October this year, while Pro and Business users have more of a grace period, September 2017. The change was made because the feature was being abused (malware etc) significantly more than it was being legitimately used.

Use a proper web host - Amazon AWS, Azure, Dreamhost, Discount Hosting etc etc etc.

Dropbox had a larger plan and discontinued it, so I wouldnt expect a 2TB plan any time soon.

Yes, but you will need to create your own server side service to do it, authorise your own account against that service once and store the Dropbox auth token for later reuse by your clients, and use that token for all actions rather than one generated by each user. You can't do this solely in Javascript client side,…

The fact that some people think there is a conspiracy between MS and Dropbox here is quite amusing :)

You need to get them to link your app to their Dropbox account, and then use the token that process gives you. As I said, read the documentation and the example apps.

www.dropbox.com/developers Start with the documentation and sample apps.

You need to use the API to carry out tasks or access the files programmatically after the user has uploaded the files. https://www.dropbox.com/developers Unfortunately, Dropbox doesnt write the plugins for other systems, so the API is all that there is officially - its there for you to write your own plugins or…

That "trouble" is two or three clicks at most with a modern IDE. Remember that these days we often aren't dealing with a "binary", but rather something that is interpreted or requires a runtime to operate in... SSL doesnt close all the doors in this case - it simply closes one door. Don't pretend otherwise.

So it appears that my initial concern is moot. Agreed? I can decompile your app, or attach a debugger at run time, and sniff the key that way. With a temporary untrusted certificate, Fiddler can decode some SSL but from what I see, you can make it so your stream cannot be decoded this way and I was unable to use this…

Don't they now have access to my Dropbox through the API? Yup. I read some of the other posts about this subject and it appears to not be a major concern. Is that really the case? If the API is used as intended, its not really a major concern - the *intention* is that people connect to their own Dropbox accounts in your…

Dropbox doesnt support SFTP - you can use the Dropbox API ( www.dropbox.com/developers ) to upload files, but not SFTP.

It did use to say somewhere in the dev docs that traversing the entire document tree for an account was not recommended for precisely this reason, did that advice go away? :)

The documentation suggests that reasonable use should never hit the rate limiting level, so I wonder what you are doing :) It also says you need to contact the developer support team to discuss your requirements: https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/bestpractices

If you open a support ticket at www.dropbox.com/support they might be able to send out the SMS via a different method, which might resolve your issue, but if it does not, then Dropbox will not recover the account for you. Tickets take on average 3 business days, and you can check on them at http://dropbox.zendesk.com/

I don't for one minute think that the Dropbox text messaging system is saying "lets not send this specific message to Abdullaziz, that should be funny!". Which means it is being sent. Text messages are unreliable - which is why you are given an emergency backup code. So you don't lose the account if the text message isn't…

As per the article Robert linked to: If you're not receiving text messages, you've lost your phone, or your mobile authenticator app isn't working, you should disable or reset two-step verification on the Security tab of your Dropbox account settings. and Recover your account with your emergency backup code * Sign in at…

Dropbox won't ever issue you with the backup code again, so if you cant log in using your normal username, password and code, you won't ever be able to regain access to the account.

You should be swapping out the Dropbox parts for mocks, which return ideal responses - you shouldnt ever test more code than absolutely necessary in a unit test, and that includes third party libraries or integrations. If the Dropbox part fails, thats an entirely different ball game, but you should be assuming the response…

Not accessible to anything other than major partners. 

Please stop opening threads and stick to one - you do not need three threads on the same topic.

Dropbox is dropping XP support because it has started to cost them more to support it than the revenue they get from supporting it. Simple really. And I disagree with your comment about Microsoft "creating obsolescence", if you look at *any* of the alternative operating systems, old operating systems get dropped by their…

William, surely your problem is with Corel, who abandoned the product you want to use? If they hadn't abandoned it, it would have been updated to work on Windows 10...

Its precisely because Microsoft are not updating XP that its becoming harder and more expensive to support - in development terms, XP is diverging from the standard Windows environment with each update to Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, to the point where building a client that supports XP as well as the others…