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Nicky M.1
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Dropbox downloads its new version, fails to install it, and tries again.

   To be clear, I am not referring to the updating of the files in the Dropbox-in-the-cloud, nor the files in the Dropbox-on-my-computer as I mess around with them: their updating is satisfactory. Th...
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Nancy
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3 years ago

Hi Nicky M.1, I’m sorry to hear about the issue. 

 

Just to clarify, did you initially install the Dropbox app via www.dropbox.com or the Software Manager on your Linux device? 

 

In the former case, you can try to go to this page, and attempt to manually update the app to the latest version if the automatic update fails again.

 

Let me know if this helps.

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