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cvhmanchester
3 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Issues logging into the desktop app, I can't get past the login page.
Earlier in this week, I was able to log into my institutional and personal accounts. I am using Will 11 on my PC with Firefox.
I then changed the setting for the institutional account to online onl...
cvhmanchester
3 months agoExplorer | Level 3
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1. I have two accounts, institutional and personal. Within the institutional (I made a slight mistake in my previous message): the directory listed on my PC is empty (shown as C: above). The directory and sub-directories on C: is empty and on G: is populated but contains only obsolete files (from 2017 and 2022). The directory on H: I have set up a Dropbox directory TurnerWebsiteIT into which I copied my PC folders containing the files on H: - the listings in this directory on the PC show all the sizes as 0. This is not synced with the cloud (when it was, the files swamped my C: drive)
2. If I go down to the bottom right of the Window's screen and click the Dropbox icon, it creates a Dropbox panel (bottom right).
If I click on my personal icon on the top right, it gives details of the institution's account , e.g. 991.5 TB used of 1000TB available.
If i click on the Dropbox folder icon, it takes me to the PC directory of Dropbox, which is empty.
3. I am unable to login at http://www.dropbox.com/home to my institutional account, though I can login to my personal account.
When I go to http://www.dropbox.com/home
There is a red message at the top "your session has expired ..." which rapidly disappears.
When I put in my institutional email address, a message pops up "Single sign-on enabled". At this point previously, I was taken to my institutional sign-on page. However now, the sign-on screen reverts to -
There is a red message at the top "your session has expired ..." which rapidly disappears.
4. I can view the institutional Dropbox account only through the MS directories on my PC. I don't know if I am looking at an image of the cloud holdings or a separate memory on the PC of what happened in the past.
As you can see, I have confused myself, and Dropbox.
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