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New Drobox app is terrible!
If I wanted to look at the latest files uploaded to my dropbox, I'd click on the dropbox icon in my menubar (Mac OS) and click on the folder containing the file that was last uploded as the folder tree was right under the file name.
On top of that I could right click the file name in the app, copy a link to these files and share it with whatever app I wanted to as the link was now in my clipboard. I could also go to folder the file was in simply by clicking the name of it etc etc and now ALL I can do is open the file.
Who makes these incredibly stupid and unintuitive design decisions? ADD functionality, don't remove it.
Spoke to Dropbox support and this might (hopefully) not be intentional and an issue with the latest early release version. If you need to revert, do this:
1 Log in to dropbox.com using your web browser.
2 Click on you account picture/avatar at the top right corner of the page.
3 Click on "Settings".
4 From the "General" tab, scroll down to the section titled "Preferences" and uncheck the box next to "Include me in early releases" if it is checked.That fixed it for me.
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thank you!
As MarkRM stated - additional step required after disabling this preference is to re-install dropbox as it won't simply revert back to a stable version.
I am having the exact same problem. This very feature of being able to see what I worked on recently and what my team has worked on recently is the reason I picked dropbox instead of Box (which was free!). I now want to cancel. This is TERRIBLE.
voila
- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Lori,
thanks for your info. Actually most of the time were happy with being in the Beta version, but in this case we don't understand what's going on. Could you give some info why dropbox is opting out of navigating via the taskbar icon? It was so helpful and this feature should even be explored more if you ask us. Reinstalling dropbox is very heavy on our internet usage and we because we have a very complex and large database, this demands a lot of synching and is time consuming.. Looking forward to feedback on this.
Best
- MeganHey nana71, and thanks for writing back to me!
The Dropbox desktop application isn't necessarily opting out of this feature.
However, as beta builds are still in the testing process and are used for testing purposes, you could experience some issues or an inconsistent experience, such as this one.
This is why, as a first step to isolate the issue, I recommended the stable version.
I hope this helps. thats our version
- JayHi SophieKeij, the 3 in the middle means it's the beta version. Could you try upgrading to the stable version by follow the steps previously provided by Megan to see if they help?
