We Want to Hear From You! What Do You Want to See on the Community? Tell us here!
Forum Discussion
Solved
Dropbox does not open Excel files! (Cannot Find)
Error message trying to open .xls files using Excel 2013. "Cannot find" file if you double click the file from a Dropbox local folder which is green light synched. You can open the same file if you e...
Credit to the corporate drop-box support- they answered the question immediately when i contacted them on chat. The problem was with excel not drop-box- Excel has a 256 character limit including extensions in the path. We had the excel file buried in too many subfolders with long names, taking us over the 256 character limit.
??? makes no sense, the same file in same location, same filename opened just fine 2 weeks ago, won't today. Can't edit it.
This is a farse solution. Worked fine, then all of a sudden, BOOM, error messages on every excel message ... if this was the case, then why does a Microsoft Word file, same directory and even longer in a file name open just fine.
