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BillSki
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4 years ago
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PDF Access on Dropbox

I am unable to easily open PDF files when they are in Dropbox but if I copy them onto my hard drive I can open them immediately.   When I open them on DB, I get an Adobe page with PDF's listed on...
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    fabr_bardelli1
    3 years ago

    Done! What happened is that the default browser in Windows setting was Internet Explore. Changed to Edge, I could open these files.

    Thank you. Case closed, for me.

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fabr_bardelli
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

 

Dear All, same issue here reported. 

Adobe can not open some files and this is the error message. Copying the same file on desktop, it works.

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fabr_bardelli1
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Done! What happened is that the default browser in Windows setting was Internet Explore. Changed to Edge, I could open these files.

Thank you. Case closed, for me.

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