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VinceM50
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox unstable in iPad OS Files App.
The problem I have is that Dropbox seems to crash when running on an iPAD via the apple files app. If I open an application that uses the files app, such as Pages or Final Draft, when saving to the D...
- 2 years ago
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Dragon Personal Management
4 years agoHelpful | Level 7
Just to let everyone know this is still happening for me - my work around which works well is :
- I save the files to files app (IOS APP)and then do with them what I need eg attach multiple files to email or upload to WETRANSFER or upload to another site eg QuickBooks.
- Using the files app there are no issue ever all works perfectly always.
- Once I have completed the âwhat ever I need to doâ - I then move the files from apple iCloud files or local iPad storage to dropbox and remove from my File app (IOS APP)
So essentially I am using the apple software for all the uploading and downloading steps etc and there is never any issue.
So in short I use dropbox only to save the final file to as a back up - but any up and downloading steps I use the native files (IOS APP) And all is well
OR another options
Reboot the iPad or iphone - this instantly solves the problem.
I think what is happening is there is a âhelperâ app which is some sort of prog that constantly runs in the background if this falls over then the dropbox upload and download with IOS stops working - this is proved by the fact that a restart or reboot sorts the prob as that will no doubt kill and restart the said âhelperâ appâŠ.(might be wrong but I used to work in IT and this is my guess at what the issue is) question is is the issue within the dropbox software or within the IOS op system - whatever its a bug I would think.
Hope that this helps
Simonmr
4 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I was just wondering if there was a fix for this yet please? Iâm having the same problem. Opening or working with files from Dropbox within the Files app is completely unstable, and crashes after a few seconds.
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