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Mike G.
New member | Level 1
12 years ago

Disable automatic updates

How can I prevent dropbox from automatically updating itself? The new dropbox 3 has a very anti-windows-7 UI that I don't like, so I reinstalled 2.10. How do I stop dropbox from continually install...
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kayhikski's avatar
kayhikski
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

I am a System Administator.

 

Almost all my users use Dropbox. I have no control over this. 

 

The automatic update process has broken Dropbox for my users twice in the last few months.

 

When it breaks like this my users come to me to fix it.

 

I have tried downgrading to an older (working) version but Dropbox auto-updates back to the most recent (broken) version in short order and becomes inoperable.

 

 

Dropbox became unusable again yesterday with version 24.4.16.

 

What gives, Dropbox?

 

Sanchez's avatar
Sanchez
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9 years ago
Hi kayhikski, 
 
I’m sorry to hear about this, and I’ll make a note of your situation for our developers. 
 
There is a newer stable version of our app available here http://bit.ly/2oNhyQZ  if you’d like to try it out.
 
Thanks

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