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Andy T.'s avatar
Andy T.
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

The install link on the Dropbox site sometimes redirects to the beta version of the desktop app

The virtual links to download dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/download https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 sometimes (like once in 30 tries) redirect automatically to the latest BE...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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3 months ago

By default, the website link should only automatically download the stable app, and without any URL changes, for the correct OS.

I will forward this information to my colleagues to investigate this matter further. 

In the meantime, you can change your URL slightly to add the build, like so:

https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64&build=stable

This should always download the full and current stable build for you, and it should work for the full offline installers for Mac and Windows as well. Changing 'stable' to 'beta' will immediately get you the beta build.

If possible on your end, could you test that stable URL I provided to ensure that you don't accidentally get a beta build, even though 'stable' was chosen explicitly?

Andy T.'s avatar
Andy T.
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

Yes, if I add "&build=stable" explicitly I do always seem to get what I asked for :-)

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