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Dropbox desktop app (NOT S mode)
Everytime I try any link to download the dropbox desktop app, the only file I get is for S mode.
I am NOT running in S mode. How do I get the regular desktop app for Windows?
Every location I've been to results in the following file:
dropboxInstaller.exe (658 KB)
Anyone who can point me in the direction of the desktop app that is NOT the one for S mode; I'd be so greatly appreciative! 🙂
I've tried installing from the dropbox acct, from dropbox.com/install, from dropbox.com/downloading . . . all of these result in the installer for "S" mode. Where can I get the installer for "NOT S mode"?
Thanks!
Hi Walter -- thanks for the quick response. I did previously find a similar link somewhere, but didn't get a successful install. Then, after over 10 install/uninstalls and several reboots, the small file did finally work. I tried so many different things, there's really no telling what exactly made it finally successful. Except that I did have a few friends watching me on zoom, and that always seems to make a difference when someone's actually watching! 😉 But I will say that there are quite a handful of people out there who have posted that they had the exact same issue. The file would only install S Mode, and then after lots of tinkering, it finally installed correctly. I don't know that anyone has been able to post a definitive solution as to what exactly caused it to finally work. Hopefully, if someone else sees this post, they'll give your download a shot before spending hours/days trying to figure out why they can only get S Mode installed.
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Hi Walter,
Would you please share the link again? I just got a surface pro x with windows 11 (not s mode) and it will only let me download Dropbox lite.
Many thanks,
Noelle
- Rich
Super User II
NEShipley wrote:
I just got a surface pro x with windows 11 (not s mode) and it will only let me download Dropbox lite.
The Surface Pro X uses a Microsoft SQ processor which is an ARM-based processor. The Dropbox desktop application is not yet compatible with ARM-based processors. They're working on a Beta release but there's no ETA at the moment. You can follow this thread for more information.
- Just wondering, how late my have they been working on it.
Thank you for getting right back to me. - Is it the same for a Surface Pro X with ARM processor?
