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Why is the Dropbox Desktop App no longer available?
The dropbox desktop app had such a great user interface and was a good workflow for our team.. unfortunately as of 17 Jan 2022, it has been dropped.. I wonder why this change was made, and i'm just h...
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First of all, thanks a lot for your thoughts and comments. They surely help a lot to understand what you want on your end.
Keep in mind that Dropbox remains focused on helping our customers stay organized and work more efficiently. With this focus, we’re simplifying your desktop experience with improvements to Windows Explorer, macOS Finder, and the taskbar/menu bar.
Support for the desktop window ends on January 17, 2022.
Don’t worry—we're continuing to support a great desktop app experience for you and your content is still safe with us.
Save, view, share, and access all your files with the Dropbox folder in Windows Explorer, macOS Finder, the taskbar/menu bar, on dropbox.com, and with the latest iOS and Android apps.
If you need me, give me a shout.
I agree that the Desktop was redundant in some ways, but some functions were really usefull, as described above.
I specifically liked the abilty to use the great search function in Desktop, and then to be taken to a specific file in Win Explorer - big loss.
Unfortunately, it seems syptomatic of DropBox's somewhat erratic progresses: introduce something half-heartedly, let it barely survive for a while, then make it disappear. Paper is another example: I started to look into it, but it fail to see the real benefits. Same for Passwords: Could be great but lacks commitment...
I appreciate Dropbox focussing on what they're good at: Cloud. But it may make sense to work on some cloud-boosting features.
I think the problem maybe was some users didnt know that the desktop app was available in the format in preferences as below.. i know this because other Dropbox users in our office didnt know how to set if to show this on their PC.
when i explained how to show it, they said that it was great..
Guys i think we are going around in circles with this.. and it not looking good for coming back.. the website is C##p , and im getting sick of pop-up email from Dropbox about post.. time to cancel the community email notifications..
