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msakten
Helpful | Level 7
6 months ago

Clicking on the Dropbox icon opens the local folder instead of the app menu (v228.3.5456).

On a brand new windows PC I installed the latest dropbox (v228.3.5456), and the dropbox GUI won't show. When I right click on the dropbox icon in the systray nothing shows, when I double click on the...
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msakten's avatar
msakten
Helpful | Level 7
6 months ago

oh thx for letting me know. I'll try this. Why was I pushed a beta version I wonder, I don't want beta software managing 2.5TB of my data!

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    Mark
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    6 months ago
    msakten wrote:

    Why was I pushed a beta version I wonder, I don't want beta software managing 2.5TB of my data!

    You have to have opted in to it at some point. It isnt something that comes automatically. 

    You can opt in and out via https://help.dropbox.com/account-settings/enable-early-releases. 

    For info you can tell if its a beta as the build will be in format xxx.3.yyy where as a stable build is always xxx.4.yyy. 

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