Why did you take away the 'open folders in' option in the app's preferences?

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pvk2023 wrote:

... This was standard for Dropbox. Then suddenly it's gone as an option? Why? To drive us to the website for a service we're already paying for? Why was this option taken away? ... 

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Hi pvk2023,

No, you have a mistake. Dropbox is sync service and has never been letting users to just "viewing" the account content. It has been always a mirror of account content locally somewhere on your local drive and keeps this "mirror" (Dropbox folder) in sync with the account. There is no way something never existing got away. 🙂

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pvk2023 wrote:

... If this remains the same I will likely consider whether or not I pay for another year. 

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There are "ideas" related to this, but Dropbox is NOT interested in as you can see there - "Closed" status. 🤷 So forget it (such an option) and consider what you'll pay for.

This is how the general preference used to look. It had that option. 

THis is what it looks like now. You'll find the same complaint for mac users with "finder" instead of file manager. 

Here you're talking for different thing - default way how to open a folder, not is the folder existing local or not!!! Whatever you select the folder and entire content would exists locally. They only will get opened in different ways. That's it - it doesn't mean that folders haven't existed locally and only visible in application (as you can see Dropbox doesn't like this idea 😕).

I have no idea why Preferences dialog design changed, but it doesn't affect folders (miss)residings in any way.

PS: Just keep in mind that you're using beta version. If it's unintentional, get back to stable one.

Hmm. I don't how I got a beta version. I'll uninstall and see if I can roll it back. 

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pvk2023 wrote:

Why did you take away the "open folders in" option in the preferences?

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Because the option that it refers to, the Dropbox Desktop app, no longer exists. It was dropped back in January 2022.