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Rodney E.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
My Dropbox desktop app is stuck on "Connecting".
Dropbox won't connect on my pc with windows 7. I've re-installed, rebooted and tried: https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/configuring-firewall Most of the preferences buttons are disabled; selecti...
- 10 years ago
Has anynone found a solution for this ? I've unlinked and reinstalled in 5 different ways and I can't get it to work no matter what i do...
Edit: Found a fix for myselfGo to proxies on your Mac and disable ''Auto Proxy Discovery''. I did not realise that this needed to be disabled in order for there to be no proxies. As I have a new computer I thought proxies where basically none.
Hope this helped someone. Here's another thread with more fixes.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206754586-Dropbox-3-20-1-not-connecting-not-syncing
Michael L.38
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Gustav the "dropboxer" did a very good job describing a way for Technology PhDs to solve dropbox synching problem, however he did nothing for me, a private user just trying to synch my dropbox account on my computer which has worked fine up to about 2 weeks ago. Give me real instructions that I can follow step by step, or you will lose me to OneDrive, which is FREE.
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