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Dropbox folder displayed twice in Windows File Explorer. How to remove 1 of them?
Application Affected Dropbox for Windows Device Microsoft Surface Pro9 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 238.4.6075 Question or Issue The Dropbox folder is presented twice in File Explorer in Windows. Both instances are directly under Desktop in the folder tree.…
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Option to convert 'Available' to 'Available Offline'
Dropbox makes the distinction between Available Offline (local copy might be deleted to save space) and Always Available Offline (local copy will never be deleted by Dropbox). The former has the white icon with green border and checkmark, the latter the green icon with white checkmark. I want to be able to change files and…
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Update 232.4.5988 causes unnecessary full re-sync.
Application Affected Dropbox for Windows Device Microsoft Surface Pro 0 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 232.4.5988 Question or Issue Dropbox updated to 232.4.5988 this Wednesday, as announced by the app with much fanfare. The new app uses the Windows sync icons,…
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How can I set all my files and folders to Always Available Offline?
Device Microsoft Surface Pro9 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 233.4.4938 Syncing Status Up to date Question or Issue The last update of Dropbox trigged a complete re-index of all my content. After that completed (which took two days, thanks, Dropbox), all the…
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Error: Can't Upload - Please give access
Just created some new folders and files on my oft-used NAS, which is synced with Dropbox through Boxifier, and has been for months. None of the new folders and files created today are syncing; in addition, Dropbox reports an error (in Dutch), which translates as "Can't upload - Please give access". Some new folders were…
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Dropbox installer silently fails under all circumstances
This is driving me nuts. In the course of supporting an unrelated issue, Support discovered that I was running a beta version of Dropbox (no idea how that happened), so they recommended I install the latest stable release. Long story short: the Dropbox Installer doesn't install at all. The EXE launches, Windows asks for…
