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Dibrom
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

The Dropbox desktop application will no longer be supported for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 on October 22nd

Congratulations Dropbox! You've just put the nail in the coffin of all W7 users who prefer not to be spied on and constantly used for data scraping!   Well done. If the constant scaremonger naggi...
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Walter
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2 years ago

Hey Clive48 - thanks for all the additional information there.

Could you try an advanced reinstall and let us know if you get the same results? 

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Clive48
New member | Level 1
2 years ago

Hi

I had already tried Advance Reinstall option wout any luck. Infact, post Adv Reinstall, I was getting a different error popup with the link to logs to share with Dropbox support. Logs are as above. Now Dropbox doesn't start only as per screen shot below. There is some bug in your app which you need to fix. Till then disable the Windows 7 etc support popup.

 

  

 

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