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".7z files can't be previewed" message
I have always been able to preview and extract .7z files on Dropbox. They are small 15 kb or less size files. Today when I attempt to access a .7z file, I am receiving the message ".7z files can't be...
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderator
The problem is that the Dropbox App will not even decrypt a non-password protected 7z file. So password is not the issue.
In the past when I accessed these 7z pw-protected files with the Dropbox App, it provided a menu of a couple of Extract options which I could select. I would select one and it would provide a screen to enter the password which would decrypt the 7z file into a txt file. Now regardless whether it is or is not password protected the message I now get is ".7z files can't be previewed" when using the Dropbox App on Android devices.
So something has changed with Dropbox recently.
- Mark
Super User II
Dropbox states that its not supported on mobile apps to open Zip files: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/viewable-file-types
So, unless you had an app that was a third party one doing the actual opening it isn't Dropbox.
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