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Alan Z.'s avatar
Alan Z.
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Dropbox installer keeps installing, after installing successfully

I'm temporarily using a different computer.  I successfully downloaded and installed dropbox to that computer, but every few minutes, the installer runs again.  I've seen discussions where the instal...
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Alan Z.'s avatar
Alan Z.
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Sorry, I should have made more clear.  I can't say what exact site I downloaded from but it was the dropbox site.  I know it's trying to reinstall because I see a tiny window open up and it says something about installing and has the dropbox logo, and then a few minutes later, a new file explorer window open to dropbox shows up.  I can't say whether it succeeds in installing because it's installed the whole time, but it doesn't say it failed.  

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