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Txt files now open in preview mode instead of the Dropbox Text Editor directly
My files are created as plain .txt files. In the past they would open directly with the Dropbox Text Editor as I had selected the Dropbox Text Editor as the default in the phone app.
Now the files ...
Hi all,
I'm a product manager at Dropbox working on the mobile Previews experience. First off, sorry for the inconvenience that we've caused you re: your workflow. The original intent behind this change was to solve a complaint that users had around wanting to perform more Dropbox-related file actions like sharing - so defaulting to preview was intentional.
However, it seems like we introduced 2 new issues here:
1. We now default you to the Dropbox editor, and when you're in the Dropbox editor, there also a number of issues where pressing the edit button scrolls you back up to the top of the file, the font size is a bit different, etc.
2. We don't respect the default text editor that you use, so you have to click the 3 dots > Open with > the default editor everytime you want to edit a text file.
One solution we're thinking about is to still drop users into preview mode when opening a .txt file (to aid many users who do want to perform actions in Dropbox), but pressing the edit button would drop you into your default text editor. Would like to hear more feedback from you on this change before we make it.
Thank you for your input in making Dropbox better!
My wish list would be to have a setting that says whether or not to open files in preview mode or not. Problem solved for everyone! I really wouldn't care if it went back to the top if I switched to edit mode, because I would have my default be edit mode so I'd never have to switch.
I only care about using a different text editor because there are these issues with yours. If you fixed yours I also wouldn't care if I could use a different one.
I will say that the text editor issues are enough of a pain point for me that I'm looking at my options for switching away from Dropbox altogether.
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