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"Installation failed. Please try again" error on Windows 10
Hi there.
I had to uninstall Dropbox on my machine with Windows 10 and downloaded the Dropbox app and executed the DropboxInstaller.
After a few minutes saying "Installing Dropbox...", I get the ...
Hey Fraga - have you tried an advanced reinstall by any chance?
If you're on the Dropbox Basic plan, make sure that you're not connecting more than 3 devices to your account as you might be hitting your account's device limit.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Fraga - have you tried an advanced reinstall by any chance?
If you're on the Dropbox Basic plan, make sure that you're not connecting more than 3 devices to your account as you might be hitting your account's device limit.
Walter wrote:...
If you're on the Dropbox Basic plan, make sure that you're not connecting more than 3 devices to your account as you might be hitting your account's device limit.
For sure this cannot be Walter. If there are more devices linked already, the error wouldn't be at install time, but at link time (something that happens after install) and there is clear message. You don't need to believe me, but just check on your own.
As Fraga mentioned (and I cannot disagree) very often error messages are completely useless though! This is something very often discussed here on the forum and almost ignored from the application' development, unfortunately. 🤦
Let's hope this will change.
