Installing Dropbox desktop app for Windows to Program Files instead of x86 Program Files

Hey golemus - thanks for posting on our Community and sharing your thoughts on this.

Can you please clarify the OS version of your computer and the version of the Dropbox desktop app that you installed there?

Is there any particular reason you're looking to do this by the way?

Let us know more and we'll take it from there. 

Win11 Pro N 24h2 26100.2605
Dropbox 215.4.7202

1. It is easier to keep track of all apps if they are located in same folder (C:\Program Files)

2. C:\Program Files (x86) is a legacy thing, I want to get rid of all legacy stuff and all 32bit stuff as loading/keeping both 32 and 64 bit environments consume more memory and is less stable than pure 64 bit environment.

Thanks for the additional information and your feedback on this golemus - I've  passed it on to the team internally and you can let us know if you have anything else to add.

dropboxI have the same question that Walter asked.

I am running Win10 Pro 22H2 19045.5440.  I tried to install several stable builds of the x64 version (e.g., 216.4.4420) but the file version (1.3.911.1), like previous releases, is not a 64-bit application.

The installer automatically defaults to a 32-bit version of the program and installs its files in C:\Program Files (x86) instead of C:\Program Files, which is the default directory for x64 applications.

Of course, 64-bit versions of Windows can run 32-bit applications, but this is not efficient.  It is also misleading to tell users that you have "stable 64-bit versions" of the program available for offline installation, when they are actually 32-bit versions intended to run on 64-bit machines.

Hi Roy_H, though Dropbox is still installed into Program Files (x86), that we do in fact have and serve a 64 bit version of Dropbox. As an example, other companies appear to do this too, such as Microsoft with Edge. We do not have any plans on changing the install location at this time.