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MarkRM
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Re: New Drobox app is terrible!

I absolutely agree. One of the best things they added in the last few years was the search box, which I used constantly as I work out of Dropbox on all my work projects. They've now bafflingly removed this, along with a bunch of other functionality, for no other reason I can see except to force people over to their (pretty terrible) standalone app. This is a huge step backwards.

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  • MarkRM's avatar
    MarkRM
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    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.

  • lennykoy's avatar
    lennykoy
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    I've unchecked it, restarted the desktop app, and it is still the same after. 

    Were there any further 'revert to old version' option?

  • MarkRM's avatar
    MarkRM
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    Hey Lenny.

     

    You have to download and reinstall the app from the Dropbox download page as well (a simple restart will not do it).

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    5 years ago
    lennykoy wrote:

    I've unchecked it, restarted the desktop app, and it is still the same after.

    MarkRM is correct. Disabling the setting just prevents you from getting new early release versions going forward. You need to remove the beta and install a stable version of the Dropbox app.

  • pavsiingh's avatar
    pavsiingh
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago

    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.

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