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George Freestone
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10 months ago

".pdf files are supported but something went wrong." error on the website

I don't believe this problem has been solved - at least for me.  I get the error message (".pdf files are supported but something went wrong.") ONLY for one file (140 MB PDF), other small PDF files w...
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Jay
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10 months ago

As far as I know, there haven't been any changes on our end to the Dropbox site or the previewer. I'm glad to hear that it's working for you now.

Regarding the hiding of replies, are you referring to the nested threads of the forum, as in the posts within posts, or something else?

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George Freestone
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Well that's troubling - I'm not feeling very comfortable if we can't explain why the upload and view is now working.  

And yes - it seems there are a large number of issues reported regarding the title of this thread - and the nested threads are not visible to me - just raising some skepticism.  

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