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dhayduk
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Dropbox "Connecting..." with VPN

Been using Dropbox for many years. Normally DB is connected and status is "up to date". And it had been then when I started VPN to the office, that DB would lose connection (not surprising) and would...
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JP25
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

I have the same issue and use ProtonVPN. Dropbox icon remains grayed out until I restart the app or disable VPN.

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alturic
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Still no resolution to such a simple issue. Sad. I prefer DropBox to all of the other file management solutions out there too - all of which work completely fine with connecting/disconnecting to VPNs.

 

And again, in my situation, my VPN is strictly routing a few IP's through it. Anything and everything related to DropBox is always routed through the default LAN connection.

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