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Unable to pin to Start Tiles in Windows 10
I have apps like Excel and Filemaker pinned to the start menu of windows 10 as tiles. Under those tiles I also have frequently used files. So just right click the app icon, click the file you want ...
I think I'm going to have to settle that Microsoft is just being a jerk about dropbox vs OneDrive. If I open a local file in excel, it will show up in the recent files list when right clicking the excel start tile. If I open a file that is in dropbox (even though it's a local file) it will not show up in that list. So I have to open excel, and navigate to the file via it's recent file list there.
I have updated to the latest dropbox app, so it's not Dropbox. And....I'm not giving in to this "inducement" to "upgrade" to a new excel that I don't own and will have to pay for ever for bells and whistles I don't user or need. Bitter? A tad...
Thank you for your support.
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderator Hi Andy P.17!
As a workaround (not ideal), but to get going with it, would be for you to try and pin certain folders from Dropbox to the start menu for quick access.
I suggest that you also try to contact Microsoft support to see if they can help identify why this is happening.
As a workaround (not ideal), but to get going with it, would be for you to try and pin certain folders from Dropbox to the start menu for quick access.
I suggest that you also try to contact Microsoft support to see if they can help identify why this is happening.
Pinning folders...I'll try that. Very little hope that Msft will help. Thanks again for hanging in there with me. One thing I won't do is switch to OneDrive to even see if it avoids this inconvenience.
Hi, I just ran into what's probably another version of this which I'm sure has arisen from a recent MS Office change. My wife and I share a home finance Excel spreadsheet that lives in our Family Room. It's "Local" to both of us. Me being smart pinned the spreadsheet to the Excel tile on my Windows 10 taskbar; she did not do that on her machine.
The result is that I was always editing the same file which Windows never handed back to the Family Room folder when I "Saved" it in Excel, hers always was saved to Family Room. So we were working with increasingly different versions of the same file.
I caught that today. Fixed the spreadsheet to include the "missing" entries and UNPINNED from my taskbar Excel tile. Voila! We're now back working on the same file.
I'm with Andy: MS trying to make life difficult for us non-OneDrive users.
- This is sounding more like a file management issue. I'm running excell2010 so I'm certain everyone else is more up to date there. One of the players is not updating files as they should. Dropbox has no reason to be petty and ignore "certain files", that is counter to its whole purpose. Microsoft on the other hand......
