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pokeefe0001
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Client startup on Windows has stopped working for me

I use Dropbox only rarely - to access a shared folder - and shut down the client when I'm done.  In the past I would start the client by clicking on a desktop client point to (as far as I know) the l...
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Megan
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3 years ago

Is it safe to assume that you managed to find a solution to this pokeefe0001? 

 

It sounds like your steps managed to make it work. If not, let me know and we'll look into this more. 

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pokeefe0001
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I found a circumvention, not a solution.  The taskbar icon works the way the desktop shortcut used to work.  I assume it is a bug that desktop shortcut now long works to start the client.  Either this bug should be fixed or it should be documented that we need to use the taskbar icon (or the start menu entry) to start the Dropbox client code.

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