Recently purchased new Dell desktop with Windows 11 Home (NOT in S mode). Have been using Dropbox for years with windows 10. Trying to setup Dropbox in Windows 11. I go to the Dropbox website and click on download app. Screen then displays a Dropbox message that says the Dropbox app is already installed. I check the apps on the computer and there are no Dropbox apps installed. I did install, during initial setup, the Dropbox in S mode as that was the only Dropbox app available in the Microsoft Store. Then after several hours trying to figure out how it worked, I researched Windows 11 in S mode and found out it does not apply to my computer (again, computer not running in S mode) so I uninstalled the Dropbox in S mode app from the computer. Now I can't load the regular Dropbox app. How do I get the regular app installed?
5. A Dropbox screen came up that said that Dropbox was already installed and there was a blue button below the message that says Open App. I clicked on the button and nothing happened and dropbox still did not show up in my File Explorer.
Dropbox was installed before the upgrade to Windows 11. It has run completely fine but with the recent update to dropbox I was told I needed to update to the latest version in order to continue using Dropbox. However, despite my attempts to install the update it never starts.
i have been using dropbox for over 3 years but today it is not even opening the /home page... i use windows xp professional operating system on my computers. I have noticed , for the past year or so, banner announcements on my dropbox files & folders page that say xp is not being supported... but dropbox has operated fine. Please help as dropbox is integral to my freelance work. Thank you. 9 July 2019.
I'm using Chrome, which is one of the supported browsers. It has worked perfectly well up until about a week ago. Ie I was able to use dropbox online and manually upload / download files. I could also see what documents I had in dropbox and move them around. Now however there is nothing. I cannot get in. When I click on dropbox the little 'loading icon' just goes round and round and round and round. And the screen stays blank.
Hi again and thanks for the support. I cleared the cache and now the little arrow doesn't go round. the screen just sits there, blank. I havent' tried any other browser or incognito window since i never used them before when dropbox worked. Anyway....I suppose that it has just been 'improved' out of reach. sigh.
meanwhile using chrome on android, i seem unable to upload a file to dropbox. but at least i can download what is already there so I haven't lost all my documents. yet. although that waits to be confirmed as dropbox might 'develop' further 'improvements'! if it works why 'fix' it? lol
After boot and login, the dropbox process uses 30% - 40% of CPU. I understand it's indexing so that's fine - but - once it's complete and sitting idle, it frequently uses CPU. At idle, it will go from not using anything one minute to using 20% the next. Seems to do this randomly yet the status of the client never changes. I am not (and have not in days) accessing / modifying any of the synced files when this occurs.
I ran into this problem a year ago during my graduate studies. My solution to the issue at the time was more of a work around. I would completely pause dropbox syncing when I was working on my laptop.
I'm using Unity3D as a game developer. All my projects are hosted on Github and my repo are synced in my dropbox folder (so I can easily switch between my laptop and desktop and have the modifications synced).
I use dropbox only for a few min each day. (I only have about 10-20 files to backup sync, not more than 300MB) But 3 weeks ago or so I noticed all my computer apps, file explorer, and even the Start Menu becoming less responsive. Now I am using Win10 LTSC 2021 on Nvme drive with laptop intel u8265, 16GB RAM on-board. My computer is normally very fast, as I rarely install programs that have no business being there
I thought it could be a fan problem (overheating). Or some corruption of the display driver. So you had Start menu/search bar taking 3-5 seconds to load (used to be instant). Some apps that loaded in 2-10 seconds taking 50-200 seconds to load. Now the CPU and the RAM usage of dropbox was fairly normal, which made this problem difficult to detect. The slowdown was so bad, that I had to reinstall Windows OS to get things to return to normal. When I started reinstalling apps, the problem returned immediately after installing Dropbox 175.4.5569. Previously I was using Dropbox 17x or maybe it was 16x; I don't remember exactly
So in short, I decided to keep Dropbox uninstalled for the moment so my computer can remain fast. And use a more file-explorer-style syncing (which is what I use dropbox for anyways) and explore apps like CloudMounter, duplicati, goodsync, oDrive, etc. These apps installers have like 20-40MB full offline installer. Dropbox has 200MB offline installer. What are you installing on people's computer?
While I now see that dropbox may not have been the root cause. Dropbox did seem to exasperate the situation. And I was left asking many questions about what exactly dropbox is doing over the last several updates vs what its original purpose of syncing files in a specific folder.
I've uninstalled Dropbox from my laptop but the navigation pane still contains the icon (which points to nothing and gives an error). I'd like to remove the icon from the navigation pane (it's truly incredible that the installer doesn't do this... ). I've found instructions for windows 10 (e.g. these ones), but none of those keys seem to exist in my registry. I'm wondering if it's because something changed for the Win 11 version. I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
Further, one may have to delete every key in the registry under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\", for me this had entries from onedrive and dropbox.
My iOS devices point to a dropbox vault (OPVault) and it syncs just fine.
Unfortunately, synchronization with Windows 10 has recently ceased.
How to point 1P windows to this dropbox vault?
Thanks in advance
As you advised me, I took out a subscription and switched to 1password8
Unfortunately when I launch this version (which is well synchronized on windows)
I can't find "Open Vault on this PC" to sync it with dropbox
I solved my problems
I only wanted to update my account 1Password.com-synced 1Password 8 app on my windows PC
and be able to consult it on my iOS devices with 1P7.
All I had to do was create an account on these devices that points to 1Password.com-synced 1Password 8.
I got no idea why you need to sync the file server to dropbox ? Have you tested what if you have a PC to dropbox sync and all the "working files" in the PC that is supposed to be sync gets deleted or corrupted ?
Sounds fairly crazy, as its designed to run from a desktop I'd probably make my first port of call an option to open up access to dropbox, a bit of monitoring in your firewall logs should help work out the best rules, then apply those to group 2 and install it locally as intended, if that really isn't an option then my next thought was based on linux inotify, i've never tested this link but maybe have a play and see if it helps: -to-monitor-a-folder-and-trigger-a-command-line-action-whe... Opens a new window
So for that I'd setup dropbox on a supported machine and give it access to the SMB share, then use something like that to monitor the dropbox folders for changes and another script to monitor the SMB share for changes and then trigger copies back and forth. The trouble with smb sharing dropbox from a workstation is Windows clients run out of connections quite quickly, so you'd be rebooting, servers don't have this artificial limit. Obviously if you are going to monitor for changes and copy them back and forth, you'll need some way of handling conflicts, which is likely why Dropbox doesn't want to run on a server without a user monitoring the app and responding to conflicts themselves.
Sounds like you should just move to a different product. I see people using dropbox all the time who could just as easily accomplish all the same tasks with OneDrive/Sharepoint(/Google Drive) yet they're paying for Dropbox in addition to their other subscription. If it's not supported, doing some kind of elaborate gymnastics to make it work is just asking for trouble.
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Houston founded Evenflow, Inc. in May 2007[20] as the company behind Dropbox, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator.[21] Dropbox was officially launched at 2008's TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual technology conference.[22] Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. and Evenflow, Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October 2009, when it acquired its current domain, "dropbox.com".[22] In October 2009, Evenflow, Inc. was renamed Dropbox, Inc.[23]
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By default, Dropbox utilizes 'C:\users\\Dropbox' as a synchronization folder, but the user can choose any location via advanced settings. Later this folder will be marked with the hidden '.dropbox' file that indicates the shared folder.
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