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jetter100's avatar
jetter100
New member | Level 2
11 days ago

I can no longer log in because of the new "games" captcha

I have been using the Dropbox free account for several years now. However, I am currently no longer able to log in to the site because the login puzzle is not working. This cost me a total of 30 minutes of my time. With the best will in the world, I can't afford this waste of time. I will therefore refrain from using Dropbox in the future if no solution is found.

9 Replies

  • raaaadrop's avatar
    raaaadrop
    New member | Level 2

    I absolutely hate these stupid games puzzles. They are bad and you should feel bad for ever implementing them. I couldn't subscribe to a dropbox plan because of them. 

     

  • lmmatic's avatar
    lmmatic
    New member | Level 2

    ALL DAY we've battled with these puzzles! Trying to set-up a new PC in the office on a Thursday is bad enough but to be met with these captcha puzzle is just infuriating. Surely I can prove my humanity in less than 10 tasks! We are still no closer to getting logged in :)

    We've all had windows updates this morning so I'm wondering if this has caused an issue?

    • Nancy's avatar
      Nancy
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      lmmatic, did you also try the audio challenge and you still couldn’t sign in to Dropbox after completing it?

  • Hans1903's avatar
    Hans1903
    New member | Level 2

    Same issue here.

    Login with Firefox fails anytime, using Edge succeeds, but all my shared files have gone. 

    Please restore the old captha and bring my shared files back.

    Thanks

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Thanks for your feedback about the captcha, Hans1903, and sorry to hear about this.

      Regarding losing access to your files, is it possible that you've signed in to a different account on Edge than the one you're signed into on Firefox?

      • Hans1903's avatar
        Hans1903
        New member | Level 2

        Hey Hannah,

        I am owner of two accounts. One private and one sharing with other people. Both show all maps only but nearly all files are not visible anymore or gone. Recently uploaded, today, files are visible but previous uploaded files not visible in both accounts and the mobile app.

        There were visible a while ago, so what Update has been done that caused this.

        And please make the captcha working with Firefox iso Edge only 

        Regards 

        Hans 

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey jetter100, sorry to see that you're having trouble.

    I understand where you're coming from and I've passed your feedback to our team about this.

    Can you check the suggestions on this thread and let me know if they help?

    Thanks.

    • lmmatic's avatar
      lmmatic
      New member | Level 2

      This thread also has no resolutions just more people locked out of their accounts because of the captcha failing to verify. Is this a windows 11 issue?

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